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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

Ai Weiwei

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Architecture Art Installation People Photography Publishing Together Working
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
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Anything Art Artwork Happen Winning
I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Fight Fighting Generation Same Want
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Censorship Forward Hopeless Insulting Self Timidity Way
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Influence Interview Understood Warhol Work Writing
The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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Internet Simple Winning
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
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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Existence Freedom Plight Powerful Reality Reflected Spiritual Tasted
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
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
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
In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Deal Democratic Dictatorship Kind Society Totalitarian
Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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Chinese Ever Government never Selected Thinking
My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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Angst Insecurity Reflect Scared State
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

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