Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
AI WEIWEIThe leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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