I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
AI WEIWEIWe are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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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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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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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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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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