Ai Weiwei Quotes, Ties Quotes, Political Quotes

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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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.

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I never think any place is better than others.

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

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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

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I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.

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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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