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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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I want people to see their own power.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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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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My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.
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I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.
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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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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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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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What counts in the end is what the government does.
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