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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

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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
Sculptor
Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
Weiwei Ai
Ai Wei Wei
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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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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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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.
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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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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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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I never had a sense of home.
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My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface I wish I could find out more.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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