I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEIOf 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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Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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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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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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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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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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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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