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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.

Ai Weiwei

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

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Developed Established Ignored Longer Sphere
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 Negotiation
We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.

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We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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Cleaned Highly Literally Lived Respected Toilet Underground Yera
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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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Cities New York
Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Equal Equip Independent
The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.

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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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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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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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Given Out Totally
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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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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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.

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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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Craziness Name
Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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Anything Meaningful Think
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Cities Designed Stadium Stated Toilet

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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