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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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. 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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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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