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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.

Ai Weiwei

Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
AI WEIWEI

Equal Equip Express Independent Information Knowledge Mind Opportunity
The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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Attitude Different More Much Open Realize Society Way
Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Condition Encourage General Masses People Society Star Unique
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
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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Art Changing Everything Politics World
Society becomes very destructive.
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Destructive Society
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Fairytale Music Nation Tragedy
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Art Fight Fighting Purpose
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
In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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End Function Indecisiveness Insecurity Rigidly Thinking
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Count Doe End Government
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
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
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Art Life never Separate
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

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.

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