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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.
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I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
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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 think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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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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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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