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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

Ai Weiwei

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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Encourage Expressed Idea People Worldview
It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Activity Curiosity Follow Instinct Kind Set Some Way
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
In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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End Function Indecisiveness Insecurity Rigidly Thinking
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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Action Attitude Collapse Day Imagine One Word World
Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Acceptance Civilization Creativity Evolved Global Thinking Tolerance Understanding
To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Above Beyond Experience Feeling Over People Physical Poetry Reality
I think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
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Another Five Hundred Million Necklace Pearl Pound Thinking
[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.
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Affair Care Culture Daily Understand
This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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Art Artist Country General Money Star Understanding
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
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Barely Casulaities Country Deal People Political Treated
These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Control Creative Folk Government Head Ironic Ultimately
[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Art Attitude Culture Long Practicing Related
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

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