China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
AI WEIWEIDemocracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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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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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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