We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
AI WEIWEIDictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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