Each year, more people want to become artists.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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Ordinary 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.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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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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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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I call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I never regret anything.
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Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster.
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