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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.
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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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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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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'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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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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China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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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 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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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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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.
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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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