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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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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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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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The world is sphere, has no East or West.
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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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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
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