The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
AI WEIWEIIt [success] is really by mistake.
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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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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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As a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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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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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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