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But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.

Ai Weiwei

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’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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Country Culture Fixed Global International More Problem
…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
But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Art Beyond Character Consciousness Country Personality Related Think Understanding Work
The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Country Cutting Educational Leadership Military Political Power Structure
We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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Grasp Memories Move Moving Something
Creativity is the power to act.
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Act Creativity Power
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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Mistake Reality Success
After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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China Long Periods
I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Bridge Build Chinese Express Humanity On Thinking Traveler
A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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Country Internet More Powerful Scared State
It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Desire Humanity Make Pureness Safe Something Trouble
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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Creativity Human Nature Untaught
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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Clear Giving Man Often Rational Reaction Reason Tendency Trying
It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Another Importantly Old People Shared Understand Wonder World Young

But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.

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