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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
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Contemporary Artist
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Human Rights Activist
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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
Weiwei Ai
Ai Wei Wei
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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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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.
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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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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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I never had a sense of home.
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The world is sphere, has no East or West.
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I want people to see their own power.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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