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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

Ai Weiwei

China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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Communist Confidence Creativity Decision Freedom Imposes Lack Limit Party Speech
The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Continuously Direction Finished Game Lead Play Possible Project Setting
Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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Convict Everyone Potential
…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Always Care Past Photograph Present Surpasses Today True
The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Developed Established Government Ignored Internet Longer Pressure Sphere
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Art Changing Everything Politics World
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
But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Art Beyond Character Consciousness Country Personality Related Think Understanding Work
The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Government Graduate Immense Job Million Problem Scramble Seven Solution
I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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Afraid Given Out People Speak Thinking Totally
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
They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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Ability Adult Beautiful Decision Judgement Lack Learned Proper Skillful Taught Young
Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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Artist Longer Mindset Produce Seeing Something Such Thing Way
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Anything Art Artwork Happen Winning
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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Country Future Government Museums Past Present Professional Year
So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Country Democracy Granted Liberty Think Today True Worse

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