If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
AI WEIWEI…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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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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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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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.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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