Ai Weiwei citations

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“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.”

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

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

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

“Citizens should bear the responsibility to act.”

“[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.”

“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.”