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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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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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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.
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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
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I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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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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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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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 society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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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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