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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
Photographer
Sculptor
Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
Weiwei Ai
Ai Wei Wei
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The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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The world is sphere, has no East or West.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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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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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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