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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.

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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It's really rubbish that some kind of technical learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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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 it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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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 never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.
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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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