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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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I think you can give meaning to any condition you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.
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The world is sphere, has no East or West.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that's beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone's emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment, he will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn't trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called Fifth Generation. I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.
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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.
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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.
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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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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.
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