A small act is worth a million thoughts.
AI WEIWEIChoices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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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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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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