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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.

Ai Weiwei

I think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
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Importance Important Public Thinking Work
For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Opening Own Refuse Year
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Act Million Motivational Small Thought Wisdom Wise
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
I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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Beautiful Country Deal Noticed People Responsibility Student United State
These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Behavior Certain Country Idea Independent More Open Participate Project
The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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Computer Effort People Technology Understand
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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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 call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
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Accountability Citizen Forever Happy Life Obsessed People Questioning
You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Aware Country Easy Govern Job
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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