You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
AI WEIWEIIf 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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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 free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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