The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
AI WEIWEIPeople who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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I 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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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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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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