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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

Ai Weiwei

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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
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Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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Ai Wei Wei
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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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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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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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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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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