Everyone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEIFor years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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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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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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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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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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