I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
AI WEIWEII don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
AI WEIWEIWarhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
AI WEIWEII saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
AI WEIWEII also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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 WEIWEIIn the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
AI WEIWEIIf it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
AI WEIWEIThe 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.
AI WEIWEIEveryone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEIMaybe [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.
AI WEIWEITo work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
AI WEIWEILife is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
AI WEIWEII also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
AI WEIWEIHad I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
AI WEIWEIIt is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
AI WEIWEIAnd who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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