Creativity is the power to act.
AI WEIWEII don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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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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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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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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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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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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