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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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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 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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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
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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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