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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
Photographer
Sculptor
Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Dont retreat. Retweet!
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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred they don't care what happens.
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I never regret anything.
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So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.
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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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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 wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
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China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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