The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
AI WEIWEIThere are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I don’t think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn’t be nervous about that.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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