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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'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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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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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do I cannot finish them now.
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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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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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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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Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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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 totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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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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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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