I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
AI WEIWEIIt is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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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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Society becomes very destructive.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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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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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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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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