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.
AI WEIWEII think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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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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I never think any place is better than others.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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