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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
Photographer
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Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.
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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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I want people to see their own power.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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 freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
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I never regret anything.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.
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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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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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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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