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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.
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I don't believe in a sense of home.
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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.
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