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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

Ai Weiwei

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
Each year, more people want to become artists.
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Artist People Year
I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Fight Fighting Generation Same Want
Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Country Course Easy Good Kind Luxury Made Relative
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Fragile Mean Powerful Recovery
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
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
What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Access Express Important Realm Wish
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
Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Cathedral Hand Mass People Production Pyramid
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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Abstract Art Everybody Freedom Need Thinking
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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Individual Internet Made Society Structure Time
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
I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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Art Important Most Stance Thinking Way
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
AI WEIWEI

Burden Changing Responsibility Shoulder World

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