Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
AI WEIWEIEvery day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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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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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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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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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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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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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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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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