I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
AI WEIWEIThe freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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 never regret anything.
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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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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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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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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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