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People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Conclusion Mine People Quiet Saying Sentence Tree Voice
We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Allowed Border Country Government Public Redefine Sphere
For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Actor Film Hero Kingdom Lying Old Real
I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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Country Crime Independent Internal Modeled Most Party Prison Restricted Year
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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Another Five Hundred Million Necklace Pearl Pound Thinking
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Artist Cities New York
We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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Civilized Create Dangerous Different Human Stop Tension Thinking
[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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Development Everything Fairness Holding Internet Letting Outside People Trail
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Burden Changing Responsibility Shoulder World
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Laughing Look Successful
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
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Children Country Future Issue Job Know Leadership Mean Solve
We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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Behind Contact Discrimination Expression Ignorant Leave Marrow Minded War
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
Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Learning New Practice Rewarding Something
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Artist Giving Up Intellectual Mean Needed Responsibility Social
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
If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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Blog Cat Nothing Personal Photo Really Watches
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Art Called Contemporary Form Philosophy Society
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
I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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Art Important Most Stance Thinking Way
I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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Art Chinese Country Documentary Few Prepared Project Quite Thing Year
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Art Code Design Everyone Open Secret
New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Country Given Home
The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Developed Established Government Ignored Internet Longer Pressure Sphere
What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Count Doe End Government
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Expression Free Respect Silence

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