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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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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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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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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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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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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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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
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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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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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