That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
AI WEIWEIThis week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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I never had a sense of home.
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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.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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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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