My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
AI WEIWEIThe rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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It 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.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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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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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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You 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.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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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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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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