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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.

Ai Weiwei

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Chinese Clearly Country Government Potential Problem Trying
Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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Carries Hopefully Irrelevant Like More People Stories Story Success Successes
We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Allowed Border Country Government Public Redefine Sphere
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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Crush Discussion Except Negotiation People Power Time Want
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Beautiful Called Craftsmanship Interested Material Mean Perfect Useless
A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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Always Obstacles Question Spending Thinking Time
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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Artist Dignity Else Right Speak Then
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
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Controversial Curated Mean People Shock Trying
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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Country Development Different Improvement Indifferent More Much Right
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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Artist Attitude Lifestyle More Producing Realized Symbolic Thing
There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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Artwork Feeling Proud Relly Single Think Thinking Want
I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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Believe Curious Optimism Still Thinking
That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Competition Country Face Measure Open Resort
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Confuse Confused Later People Realize Something Want
Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Learning New Practice Rewarding Something

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