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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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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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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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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.
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China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.
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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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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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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.
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In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.
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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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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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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.
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