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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Wei-wei Ai
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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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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 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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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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