Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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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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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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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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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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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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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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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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