A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
AI WEIWEII 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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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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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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There isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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