It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
AI WEIWEIToday, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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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.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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