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„Gdybym miał nadać obecnej epoce jakąś nazwę, powiedziałbym, że żyjemy w epoce szaleństwa.”

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Źródło: rozmowa Henrika Borka, Zadarł z wielkim smokiem, „Süddeutsche Zeitung”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Chińczycy przeżywają właśnie epokę mroku. Jest boom gospodarczy i warunki życia powoli się poprawiają. Jednocześnie Chiny sięgnęły dna, jeśli chodzi o wolność wypowiedzi, ekspresji artystycznej, wychowania. Nasze społeczeństwo obywatelskie znalazło się na dnie.”

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Źródło: rozmowa Henrika Borka, Zadarł z wielkim smokiem, „Süddeutsche Zeitung”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Dla chińskich władz już nie istnieję. Ale przynajmniej na Twitterze, do którego można jednak mieć w Chinach dostęp dzięki pewnym technicznym sztuczkom, czyta mnie 70 tysięcy osób. Tam komentuje problemy społeczne, żeby ludzie zobaczyli, że ogień całkowicie nie wygasł, że iskra jeszcze się tli.”

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Źródło: rozmowa Henrika Borka, Zadarł z wielkim smokiem, „Süddeutsche Zeitung”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Ostatnimi czasy coraz więcej ludzi trafia do więzień tylko dlatego, że napisali coś na Twitterze albo na blogu w internecie. Odłącza im się telefon, śledzi się ich. Milicja w środku nocy włamuje się do mieszkania, przewala wszystko, a potem fabrykuje obciążające dowody. Sądy skazują niewinnych ludzi na dziesięć lat pozbawienia wolności.”

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Źródło: rozmowa Henrika Borka, Zadarł z wielkim smokiem, „Süddeutsche Zeitung”, tłum. „Forum”, 11 kwietnia 2011.

„Niemcy dążą do zbliżenia z Chinami bardziej niż kiedykolwiek wcześniej. Przyszłość tutejszego przemysłu jest całkowicie uzależniona od Chin. Władze w Pekinie wsadzają do więzień wszystkich prawników zajmujących się prawami człowieka, ich rodziny nie mogą ich odwiedzać, a gdy odsiedzą karę, znikają bez śladu. Niemcy nie pytają o ich los, USA też o to nie pyta. Wszyscy zachodni politycy, wszyscy zachodni biznesmeni dobrze wiedzą, co się tam dzieje, ale nic nie mówią. Bo kto chciałby stracić szansę na zrobienie dobrego interesu.”

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Źródło: rozmowa Hannsa Georga-Rodka, Ai Weiwei zamierza opuścić Berlin. Artysta rozlicza Niemców z udawanej otwartości http://wyborcza.pl/naszaeuropa/7,168189,25079550,ai-weiwei-zamierza-opuscic-berlin-artysta-rozlicza-niemcow.html#S.W-K.C-B.5-L.1.maly, wyborcza.pl, 17 sierpnia 2019.

„Niemcy nie są społeczeństwem otwartym. To społeczeństwo, które chciałoby być otwarte, ale chroni przede wszystkim siebie. Kultura niemiecka jest tak silna, że nie akceptuje tak naprawdę innych pomysłów i argumentów. Prawie nie ma przestrzeni na otwarte debaty, żadnego respektu dla innych opinii.”

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„Nie wiem gdzie będę żył. Nie mam ojczyzny, ponieważ Chiny odrzuciły mnie w chwili mojego urodzenia. Kto zna swój cel, ten nie jest już uchodźcą. Ja jestem uchodźcą.”

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„Armia służy partii, banki należą do partii, sądownictwo należy do partii. Co za doskonały system ten państwowy kapitalizm! Z tym nie może konkurować ani USA, ani Europa, gdyż systemy demokratyczne nie są sterowane z góry.”

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Ai Weiwei: Cytaty po angielsku

“I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.”

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

“It’s hard to recover. You become not so innocent. You become, in a way, more sophisticated, which I think you shouldn’t. We should all have more simple happiness.... You become bitter.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011

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

“They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name [Ai Weiwei] can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?”

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

“I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.”

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Ai Weiwei, interview in “ Change http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-change,” Episode 1, Season Six, Art: 21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, PBS, April 2012.
2010-, 2012

“This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.”

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

“I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable.”

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

“Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.”

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

“Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture—to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.”

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2000-09, Escape from Propaganda, 2009

“I feel powerless all the time, but I regain my energy by making a very small difference that won’t cost me much.”

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2010-, Life’s Work: Ai Weiwei, 2012

“There were thousands of moving messages. People sent money from their first month’s salary. Others said: This is my retirement payment—take it. This is the money for my next pair of shoes—take it. It was very important for me to see and hear those things. Normally you do not see the warmth, humor, care and generosity of the people while writing a blog. You just feel like you are walking in a dark tunnel and you feel alone.”

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

“Neither fairness nor justice, neither reality nor humanity can be simulated or manipulated by wires or remote controls.”

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

“Nothing. Jail is about nothing. Completely blank.”

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

“My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.”

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“Ai Weiwei’s Year of Living Dangerously.” Art in America, September 2009, 28.
2000-09, 2009

“Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.”

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2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010

“The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.”

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Ai Weiwei, " interview for Unilever Series http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/ai-weiwei-conversation at the Tate Modern, October 12, 2010.
2010-, 2010

“A small act is worth a million thoughts.”

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2000-09, Meet the Most Interesting Person in China, 2009

“I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011

“Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.”

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2000-09, Who Is Ai Weiwei?, 2009

“Once again, the facts have been erased.”

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2000-09, Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan, 2009

“Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.”

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2000-09, Truth to Power, 2008

“No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.”

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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

“The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.”

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“ No Fake: An Interview with Ai Weiwei http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/08/no_fake_an_inte.html.” Portland Art, September 8, 2010.
2010-, 2010

“Consider why the quality of school dinners is declining, even as more and more golf courses are opened.”

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“ Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/25/olympics2008.china,” Guardian, August 25, 2008.
2000-09, 2008

“I tell people that because you don’t bear any responsibility, you put me in danger. 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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2000-09, Who Is Ai Weiwei?, 2009

“People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.”

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2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010

“I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse than actually losing your freedom.”

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2010-, Living in Fear Is Worse Than Imprisonment, 2012

“Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.”

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Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (8:16 p.m. December 22, 2011).
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12

“Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’ll be able to buy a house. They come from very poor villages where they’ve never seen electricity or toilet paper.”

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2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011

“The government computer has one button: delete.”

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Zhang, Qichen. “ Ai Weiwei Says Censorship in China Will Ultimately Fail http://opennet.net/blog/2012/04/ai-weiwei-says-censorship-china-will-ultimately-fail.” Opennet, April 18, 2012.
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