I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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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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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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I never regret anything.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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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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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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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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