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.
AI WEIWEII don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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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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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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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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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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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.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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