If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
AI WEIWEIEven today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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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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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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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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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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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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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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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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