Ai Weiwei Quotes About Past
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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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.
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