People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
AI WEIWEIChinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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