A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEIEveryone of us is a potential convict.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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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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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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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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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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