I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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As 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.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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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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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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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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