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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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House arrest, travel restrictions, surveillance, stopping phone service, cutting the Internet connection. What we can still do is greet the crazy motherland once again.
Ai Weiwei
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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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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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Once again, the facts have been erased.
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If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.
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My favorite word? It’s 'act.'
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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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It doesn’t matter where I am-China will stay in me. I don’t know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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I loved New York-every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong-visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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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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Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.
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This is a decadent era. Its main characteristic is that it’s dependent on lies and cheating. Once it loses this characteristic, it can’t survive for even a day.
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This does not mean a meteor has fallen. This is the discovery of a star.
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The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.
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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.
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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The Chinese government only superficially speaks the language of the international community.
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I spend very little time just doing ''art as art.'
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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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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
Ai Weiwei