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 WEIWEIHad I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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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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Society becomes very destructive.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I 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.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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