Ai Weiwei Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Thinking Quotes

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

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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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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

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New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

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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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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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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

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I never regret anything.

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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

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