If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
AI WEIWEII deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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I 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.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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