Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
AI WEIWEIThe museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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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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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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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.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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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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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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