Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
AI WEIWEII spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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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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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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