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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.
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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
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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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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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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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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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
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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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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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