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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

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
Painter
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Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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Ai Wei Wei
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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.
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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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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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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.
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Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
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