Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
AI WEIWEIIn China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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