I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
AI WEIWEIAny individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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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.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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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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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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