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

Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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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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I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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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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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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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.
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I never regret anything.
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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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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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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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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
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