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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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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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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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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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Individual that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.
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All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.
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I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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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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I never regret anything.
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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred they don't care what happens.
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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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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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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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