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I never think any place is better than others.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
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The world is sphere, has no East or West.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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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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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
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