The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
AI WEIWEIThe whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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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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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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