There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
AI WEIWEINowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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[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.
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I never regret anything.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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So 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.
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They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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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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