I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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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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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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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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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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