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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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Ai Wei Wei
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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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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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.
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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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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.
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