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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous. That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.
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My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface I wish I could find out more.
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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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I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.
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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred they don't care what happens.
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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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I never had a sense of home.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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