A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEIWe are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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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 by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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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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