China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
AI WEIWEIEven 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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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.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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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.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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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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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 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 lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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