Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
AI WEIWEII also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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I never had a sense of home.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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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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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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