I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
AI WEIWEIAnd who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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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 is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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