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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
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Sculptor
Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.
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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 never had a sense of home.
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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.
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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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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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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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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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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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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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I want people to see their own power.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.
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