I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
AI WEIWEIThe importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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