Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
AI WEIWEIOf course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
AI WEIWEIAfter I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
AI WEIWEIMass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
AI WEIWEIThe Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
AI WEIWEIYou can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
AI WEIWEIChinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
AI WEIWEII’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEILife is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
AI WEIWEII lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
AI WEIWEII never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
AI WEIWEII don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEICensorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
AI WEIWEIThe intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
AI WEIWEIThey 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.
AI WEIWEIIt’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
AI WEIWEII don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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