They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
AI WEIWEICivilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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