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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Each year, more people want to become artists.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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