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.
AI WEIWEIWhat is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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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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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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