[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
AI WEIWEII’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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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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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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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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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