A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEIA nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEIMy angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
AI WEIWEIHopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
AI WEIWEIYou have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
AI WEIWEIYou 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.
AI WEIWEIOrdinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
AI WEIWEII grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
AI WEIWEII think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
AI WEIWEIOf course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
AI WEIWEINationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
AI WEIWEIThe intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
AI WEIWEIA few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
AI WEIWEIIt’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
AI WEIWEII hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
AI WEIWEII 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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