Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
AI WEIWEIThe whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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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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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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