A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
AI WEIWEII was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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I want people to see their own power.
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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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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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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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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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