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.
AI WEIWEIThe people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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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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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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