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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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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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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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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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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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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things it is no longer so much about producing something.
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Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.
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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.
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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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