Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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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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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Hopefully, 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.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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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.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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