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“Modernism represents a true kind of living. Modernism is not about form or method or the works of a few artists, but rather about a necessary way of living. And only this kind of lifestyle can save China, because if we don’t have modernism, then we will die under the grasp of one or another ideology. Modernism at least says that every person is free and needs to honestly encounter his own life.”

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2000-09, A Kind of True Living, 2007

Life , Way , Personality

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

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2010-, China’s Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet, 2012

Freedom

“If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.”

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Solway, Diane. “Enforced Disappearance.” W Magazine, November 2011.
2010-, 2011

Life , Beauty , Freedom

“Block [my blog] if you want, but I cannot self-censor, because that is the only reason I have the blog. We both know this is a game. You have to play your part, and I have to play mine.”

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2000-09, A Kind of True Living, 2007

Game , Parting

“I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011

“You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years.... it’s a very strange world.”

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2010-, You’re There but You’re Not Existing, 2012

World

“The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.”

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2000-09, Happiness Can’t Be Faked, 2008

World , Game

“I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, 2010

People , Education , Way , History

“In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.”

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2000-09, Escape from Propaganda, 2009

History , Thinking , Memory

“The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.”

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei. “ The Olympics Are a Propaganda Show http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,531883,00.html.” Spiegel, January 29, 2008.
2000-09, 2008

“Nothing can silence me as long as I am alive. I don’t give any kind of excuse. If I cannot come out [of China] or I cannot go in [to China] this is not going to change my belief. But when I am there, I am in this condition: I see it, I see people who need help. Then you know, I just want to offer my possibility to help them.”

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2010-, Digital Activism in China, 2010

People , Silence , Change , Help

“Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.”

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2010-, Never Sorry, 2012

Freedom , Heart , Country

“We need to get out of the old language.”

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2000-09, Truth to Power, 2009

“If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.”

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Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (6:38 p.m. August 23, 2009)
2000-09, Twitter feeds, 2009

Suffering

“Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.”

Ai Weiwei

2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011

“[The Olympics are] an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.”

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2000-09, Truth to Power, 2008

People , History , Success

“I definitely know people who are shameless enough to give up basic values. I see this kind of art, and when I see it I feel ashamed. In China they treat art as some form of decoration, a self-indulgence. It is pretending to be art. It looks like art. It sells like art. But it is really a piece of shit.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011

Self-confidence , Feeling , People , Art