A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
AI WEIWEILiberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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There’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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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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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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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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