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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
Photographer
Sculptor
Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
Weiwei Ai
Ai Wei Wei
Tasted
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Throat
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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we'll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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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 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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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.
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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
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