The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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.
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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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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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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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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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