Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
AI WEIWEIMany people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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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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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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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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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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