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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.

Ai Weiwei

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
It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
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Always Control Ideology Country Human One Problem Worked
I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Board Bringing Country Pay Place Room Show Them
Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Behavior Certain Country Idea Independent More Open Participate Project
I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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Find Happiness Own Place
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 have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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Artist Forced Giving Opinion Say Something
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
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
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Believe Country Personal Structured Success Thinking
The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Deadly Everything Evil Internet Letting Openness People Thinking Weapon
You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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Clear Expression March Mean Minded Own Tiananmen
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Case Constrain Flight Freedom Imprisoned Land Misconception
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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Condition Participating Relate Society Understand Way World
As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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Art Communicate Lonely Long Opinion Person Realize
The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Continuously Direction Finished Game Lead Play Possible Project Setting

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