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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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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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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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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