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Creativity is the power to act.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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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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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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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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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.
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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.
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I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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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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In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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