Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
AI WEIWEIThe purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Of 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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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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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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Creativity is the power to act.
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The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
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That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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