Frases de Ai Weiwei

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“Si mi arte no tiene nada que ver con el dolor y la pena de la gente, ¿para qué es el "arte"?”

“Sin libertad de expresión no existe un mundo moderno, solo uno bárbaro.”

“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.”