What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
AI WEIWEIYour own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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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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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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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.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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