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.
AI WEIWEIFor me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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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 whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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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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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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