Ai Weiwei Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.

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I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

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China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. 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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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

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