It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
AI WEIWEILiberty is about the right to question everything.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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