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.
AI WEIWEILife is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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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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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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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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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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