That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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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Society becomes very destructive.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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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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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.
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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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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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