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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Ai Weiwei

I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Believe Country Personal Structured Success Thinking
Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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Ability Anybody Art Heart Ordinary People Thinking Understand
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Architecture Ass Bad Badass Bureaucrats Complicated Criticism Involved Society
Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Central Culture Everything Government Make Understanding
We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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Capitalist Country Desire Grew Lacking Luxury Material Materialistic Socialist Today
Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Express Expression Need Purpose Yourself
[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Care Culture Furthest Maybe People Understand
I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Bear Independent Responsibility System Totally
Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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Changing Country Culture Politics Problem Unpredictable
Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Acceptance Civilization Creativity Evolved Global Thinking Tolerance Understanding
The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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Come Country Different Feudalistic Industrial Point Revolution Society Twenties Year
[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Art Attitude Culture Long Practicing Related
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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Civilization Freedom Important Level Society Speech
What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Access Express Important Realm Wish
I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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Art Chinese Country Documentary Few Prepared Project Quite Thing Year

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