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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.
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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.
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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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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
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Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.
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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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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous. That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
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