Liberty is about the right to question everything.
AI WEIWEIIf a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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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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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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