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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

Ai Weiwei

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Express Need Reason Yourself
Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Plainly Responsibility Responsible Taking
A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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Creativity Discuss Healthy Openly Thought Wish
Creativity is the power to act.
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Act Creativity Power
The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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Culture Empty Fake Lie Lying Nowadays
In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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Ago Art Contemporary Museum Until Year
China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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Balance Existed Nation One Day Problem Richer Whole World
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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Country Democracy Granted Liberty Think Today True Worse
Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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Disconnected Do Feeling Find Hard Hundred Purpose Real Still Thing Very
Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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Barrier Border Imagination Intelligence Nationality Possibilities
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Cities Designed Event Seat Stadium Stated Toilet
I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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Informed Letting Passion People Picture Right Thinking
Hopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
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Carries Hopefully Irrelevant Like More People Stories Story Success Successes
Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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Happen Human Humanity Independent Information Liberation Opportunity Race Technology
It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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Artist Attitude Lifestyle More Producing Realized Symbolic Thing
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 Except Negotiation People Power Time Want

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