[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
AI WEIWEI[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
AI WEIWEII grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
AI WEIWEIIt’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
AI WEIWEII spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
AI WEIWEISo 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.
AI WEIWEIThe deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
AI WEIWEII will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
AI WEIWEIFor those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
AI WEIWEIFor artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
AI WEIWEIIt is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
AI WEIWEII think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
AI WEIWEIIt is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
AI WEIWEIYou know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
AI WEIWEIA nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
AI WEIWEIEveryone 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.
AI WEIWEI[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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