Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
AI WEIWEIEveryone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
AI WEIWEII don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
AI WEIWEIThey 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 WEIWEII think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
AI WEIWEII was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
AI WEIWEIYou can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
AI WEIWEIThrough my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
AI WEIWEIYou have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
AI WEIWEINow I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
AI WEIWEINew York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
AI WEIWEIThey very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
AI WEIWEIThe fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
AI WEIWEICreativity is the power to act.
AI WEIWEIToday, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
AI WEIWEIEveryone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEIThe rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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