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It’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 Weiwei

The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it’s not a product; it’s an understanding of human nature.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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