I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
AI WEIWEII lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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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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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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