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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

Ai Weiwei

Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.
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Content Hand Irrelevant Left Painting Production Scale Someone
Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.
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Engage Expression Living Society Strive Way
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Artist Cities New York
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Delay Freedom Human Moment Nature Stupidity Succeed Winning
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Bigger Building City Crazy Larger More Much Stupid Thinking
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Created Ethics Historical Mean Moral Revived Society
Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Learning New Practice Rewarding Something
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Anything Art Artwork Happen Winning
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Art Changing Everything Politics World
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
As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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Art Communicate Lonely Long Opinion Person Realize
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Chance Exercise Free More Much People Quality World Young
At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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Abroad Educated Government Moment People Student Year Young
Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Cities Crazy Destroy Enjoy Much Nostalgic
I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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Art Chinese Country Documentary Few Prepared Project Quite Thing Year
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Act Million Motivational Small Thought Wisdom Wise

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