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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.
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My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.
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The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Creativity is the power to act.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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I never had a sense of home.
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Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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