I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
AI WEIWEITechnology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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I want people to see their own power.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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