Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
AI WEIWEILiberty is about the right to question everything.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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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.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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