Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
AI WEIWEIMaybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
AI WEIWEIChoices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
AI WEIWEIThere isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
AI WEIWEITo experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
AI WEIWEISo for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
AI WEIWEINew York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
AI WEIWEIWhat counts in the end is what the government does.
AI WEIWEII think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
AI WEIWEI[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
AI WEIWEIAfter I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
AI WEIWEII loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
AI WEIWEII don’t believe in a sense of home.
AI WEIWEII also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
AI WEIWEIAs a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
AI WEIWEIThe purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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