China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
AI WEIWEIThe fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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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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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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