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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
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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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.
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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.
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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.
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My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.
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Art needs to stand for something.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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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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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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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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It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.
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