Art Quote by Amy Tan

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone…

— Ai Weiwei

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a…

— Xiaolu Guo

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or…

— Ai Weiwei

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

— Bill Gates

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and…

— Ai Weiwei

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government…

— John Palfrey

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political…

— Michael Anti

The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is…

— Tom Petty