Ai Weiwei Quotes, Artist Quotes, Rights Quotes

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

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It [success] is really by mistake.

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

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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

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China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

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If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.

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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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

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