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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 department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.
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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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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Each year, more people want to become artists.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.
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I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.
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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
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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 don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
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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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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
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