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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
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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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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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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 an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Society becomes very destructive.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.
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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'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.
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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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