Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
AI WEIWEILife is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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