I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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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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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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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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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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