Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
AI WEIWEIThis week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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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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It [success] is really by mistake.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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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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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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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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