I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
AI WEIWEII think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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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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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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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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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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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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