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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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Art needs to stand for something.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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I want people to see their own power.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
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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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Society becomes very destructive.
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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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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.
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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.
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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.
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