Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable-how we decide what is valuable.
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Block my blog if you want, but I cannot self-censor, because that is the only reason I have the blog. We both know this is a game. You have to play your part, and I have to play mine.
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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.
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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
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I spend very little time just doing ''art as art.'
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Once again, the facts have been erased.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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My voice is not for me. Every time I make a sentence I think how many people for how many generations had a voice that no one could hear. At most they will be remembered as numbers; in many cases, even numbers don’t exist.
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Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.
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Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.
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I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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You can see China still cannot offer any real value to the world except as cheap labor, manufacturer, and its own so-called stability. Besides that, I don’t see any creative values and creative mind or thinking that can be announced from China. So this is the struggle China has to face in the next decades.
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They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?
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The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.
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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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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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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.