There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
AI WEIWEI[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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I 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.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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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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We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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