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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.
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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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