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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Wei-wei Ai
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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.
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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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