The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
AI WEIWEIAs long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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