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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Wei-wei Ai
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.
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My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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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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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
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