Ai Weiwei Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

  Ai Weiwei

  Responsibility, Rights, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

• How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Technology, Understanding

  Source: www.politico.com

• Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Artist, Profound, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

  Ai Weiwei

  Understanding, Chinese, Wish

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

• The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Army, Differences

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

• This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Stars, Understanding

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 201.

• Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Understanding, Culture

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

• Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

• 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. It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.

  Ai Weiwei

  Creativity, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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