I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
AI WEIWEIThese are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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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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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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 think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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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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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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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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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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