Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
AI WEIWEIThere’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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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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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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