Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
AI WEIWEIThe rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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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 experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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