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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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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
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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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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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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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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
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It's really rubbish that some kind of technical learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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