We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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I want people to see their own power.
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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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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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