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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Wei-wei Ai
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do I cannot finish them now.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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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 never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.
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