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.
AI WEIWEII think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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