Logo
Quote by Ai Weiwei
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, wit

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

Other quotes by Ai Weiwei

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what Im saying is common sense. Its very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values. – Ai Weiwei

Category:
Society
Author
Ai Weiwei
Read Quote

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I dont think they believe that. Its just an argument thats made when you cant confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power. – Ai Weiwei

Category:
Leadership
Author
Ai Weiwei
Read Quote

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in Chinas relationship with the outside world. – Ai Weiwei

Category:
relationship
Author
Ai Weiwei
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful youll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? – Jeremy Renner

Category:
architecture

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

Category:
architecture

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. – Arne Jacobsen

Category:
architecture

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. – Ayn Rand

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. РAndr̩ Maurois

Category:
Live Now

Genius always finds itself a century too early. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Intelligence

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand. – Baruch Spinoza

Category:
motivational

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Happiness