Ai Weiwei Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Creativity, Past, Imagination

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

• ...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Care, Today

• I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Thinking, Museums

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

• A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Desire, Fields

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Years, China

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

  Ai Weiwei

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Faces, Nations

  "'Shame on Me'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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