I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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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I never had a sense of home.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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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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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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