The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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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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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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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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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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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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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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