Ai Weiwei Quotes

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.
AI WEIWEI

Everyone Polluted Unhealthy
I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
AI WEIWEI
New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Given
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Meaning Successful Unsuccessful
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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Chinese Documentary Few Prepared Thing Year
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
AI WEIWEI
The 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.
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Deadly Everything Letting Openness
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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Hand Left Production Scale Someone
We 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.
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Allowed Border Redefine Sphere

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