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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
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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
Weiwei Ai
Ai Wei Wei
Danger
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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It's really rubbish that some kind of technical learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous. That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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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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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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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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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.
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