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The world is sphere, has no East or West.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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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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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.
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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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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called Fifth Generation. I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
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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'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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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 think any place is better than others.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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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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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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