The 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 WEIWEIFor those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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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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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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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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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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This 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.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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