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A small act is worth a million thoughts.

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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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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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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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.
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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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I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.
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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.
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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
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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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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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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called Fifth Generation. I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.
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I never regret anything.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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