These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
AI WEIWEIThe project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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I 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.
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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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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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