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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
Photographer
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Wei-wei Ai
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Art needs to stand for something.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.
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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.
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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.
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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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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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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.
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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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China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.
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I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do I cannot finish them now.
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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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