Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
AI WEIWEINo state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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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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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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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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