What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
AI WEIWEIThe motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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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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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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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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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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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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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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