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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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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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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.
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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.
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As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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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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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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I never had a sense of home.
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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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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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