And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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It [success] is really by mistake.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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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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Nationality 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.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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