I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
AI WEIWEISociety becomes very destructive.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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I never had a sense of home.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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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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