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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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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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Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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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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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.
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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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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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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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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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