Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
AI WEIWEIThe 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.
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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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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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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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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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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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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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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