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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I want people to see their own power.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
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The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.
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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.
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All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.
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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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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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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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