The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
AI WEIWEIThe tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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 WEIWEIYou need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
AI WEIWEII don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
AI WEIWEIThis world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
AI WEIWEINationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
AI WEIWEIChina hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
AI WEIWEII think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
AI WEIWEIThe intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
AI WEIWEII don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEII never regret anything.
AI WEIWEISociety becomes very destructive.
AI WEIWEISomehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
AI WEIWEII lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
AI WEIWEIWithout freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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