I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEII’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEIDemocracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
AI WEIWEII don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEIIf there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
AI WEIWEIDictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
AI WEIWEII think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
AI WEIWEIEven if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
AI WEIWEII think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
AI WEIWEIChinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
AI WEIWEIWe grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
AI WEIWEII never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
AI WEIWEIA lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
AI WEIWEITo call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
AI WEIWEIAnd the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
AI WEIWEIIf civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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