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Ai Weiwei

I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Association Culture Feel Kind Personality Power Related State Thinking
I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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Art Important Most Stance Thinking Way
Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Conclusion Mine People Quiet Saying Sentence Tree Voice
It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Desire Humanity Make Pureness Safe Something Trouble
I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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Care Country Crazy Here Museum Shoe Thinking
Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Equal Equip Express Independent Information Knowledge Mind Opportunity
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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Anything Country Crazy Meaningful Think Thinking Wrong
Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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Art Condition Essential Expression Fighting Freedom Make Value
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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Brainwashed Choice Free Jailed Lying Wake Walking
They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Border Cope Create Deal Election Idea Imbalance Making Meet Political Popularity Selling Solving Voter
A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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Biggest Cheap Country Desire Exporting Field Labor Past Production
They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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Defend Difficulty Dramatic Handle Idea Liberal Men Women Shame Show
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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Architecture Believe Best Collaboration Made Product
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Fairytale Music Nation Tragedy
There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Country Culture Fixed Global International More Problem
I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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Apply Artwork Blog Country Participated Passport

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