A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
AI WEIWEIIt’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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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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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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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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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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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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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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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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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