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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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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Art needs to stand for something.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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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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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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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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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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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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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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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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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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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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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.
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