We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
AI WEIWEITechnology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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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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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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