I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEII have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEIStupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
AI WEIWEINew York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
AI WEIWEIWe should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
AI WEIWEIIf people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
AI WEIWEIIf I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
AI WEIWEIWarhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
AI WEIWEII think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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.
AI WEIWEIThis so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
AI WEIWEII am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
AI WEIWEII never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
AI WEIWEIThe Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
AI WEIWEIAs a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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 WEIWEIOf 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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