Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
AI WEIWEIThe only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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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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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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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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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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