What counts in the end is what the government does.
AI WEIWEIWhen you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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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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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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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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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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