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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

Ai Weiwei

…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
We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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Always Challenge Crude Issue Mirror Primitive Situation Step Understanding
It [success] is really by mistake.
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Mistake Reality Success
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Expression Free Respect Silence
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
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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Itself Mean Photography Practice Reality Recording
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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Creativity Human Nature Untaught
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Artist Giving Up Intellectual Mean Needed Responsibility Social
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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Anybody Art Definition Expression Freedom Same Separate Thinking
Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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Age Craziness Create Name Time
I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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Achieve Art Freedom Human Important Thinking Weapon
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Claim Established Human Right Society State
A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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Always Obstacles Question Spending Thinking Time
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Effort Interesting Life Little Make More Much
I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Fight Fighting Generation Same Want

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