Ai Weiwei Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, People, Design

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Design, Competition

  "Ai Weiwei: China excluded its people from the Olympics. London is different". www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2012.

• I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Design, Secret

  Conversation with Juliet Bingham and Marko Daniel, Beijing, www.tate.org.uk, May 31 - June 1, 2010.

• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Iphone, Design, Understanding

  " China's censorship can never defeat the internet" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

• I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Independent, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

  Ai Weiwei

  Photography, Art, People

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

• Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Long, Design

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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