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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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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.
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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.
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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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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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In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
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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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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
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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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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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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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My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface I wish I could find out more.
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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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