As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
AI WEIWEIChina restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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