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 WEIWEIChina restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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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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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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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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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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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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