Ai Weiwei Quotes, People Quotes

I want people to see their own power.

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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

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We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

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There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

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Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.

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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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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. [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.

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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

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I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.

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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.

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