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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

Ai Weiwei

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.
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Direct Father Independent Influence Thinking
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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Anger Art Equality Express Joy Life Much Separate
My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Appreciate Typical Wake Up
It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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Country Essential Giving People Protect Protecting Society Value
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Effort Interesting Life Little Make More Much
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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Cities Country Talking Local Resident Spent Time
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Amusement Challenge Challenges Curiosity Mean Necessarily Really Temporary
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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Application Art Look School Statistic Student Ten Thousand
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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Breathe Express Heart Long Myself Pumping
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
The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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Censorship Government Last Party Stem Strong Year
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Children Country Future Issue Job Know Leadership Mean Solve
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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Artist Boundaries Extend Looking Possible
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Expression Free Respect Silence
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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Decide Looks New Shattering Thinking Valuable Way
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

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