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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

Ai Weiwei

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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Artist Encouragement New York
I never think any place is better than others.
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Better Place Think Thinking
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Architecture Ass Bad Badass Bureaucrats Complicated Criticism Involved Society
You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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Always Know Look People Powerful Scared
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
It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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Better Learning Mean Person Rubbish Skill Technical
That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Contradictory Feeling Home Identity Question Require Sense Trust
Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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Border Idea Interest Move Own Physical Problem Solving Voter
The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Avoid Belief Carrodes Denies Ignorant Mankind Minded Misunderstanding Narrow Warmth
If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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Always Condition Ideas Independent Right Want Way
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
I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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Art Circle Coming Experience Important Thinking Work
…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
Creativity is the power to act.
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Act Creativity Power
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
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

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