If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
AI WEIWEIWe should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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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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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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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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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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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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