So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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![Ai Weiwei Quote - Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/of-course-there-in-china-has-to-be-chaos-it-has-to.jpg)
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![Ai Weiwei Quote - The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/the-society-was-so-different-in-china-it-was-a-feu.jpg)
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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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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