Everything is art. Everything is politics.
AI WEIWEIA nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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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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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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Society becomes very destructive.
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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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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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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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