Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
AI WEIWEII was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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The 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.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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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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