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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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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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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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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.
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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
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The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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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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