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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Individual that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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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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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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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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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.
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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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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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