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Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Wei-wei Ai
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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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There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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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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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that's beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone's emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment, he will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn't trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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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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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.
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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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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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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.
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So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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