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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

Ai Weiwei

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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Encourage Expressed Idea People Worldview
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Claim Established Human Right Society State
How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
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Being Feel Human Modern Powerful Society Technology Understanding
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
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Express Expression Need Purpose Yourself
I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Anything Clear Doubt Giving Man Really Reason
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Censor Development Everything Exposed Feel Government Ourselves Scared Thinking
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Bigger Building City Crazy Larger More Much Stupid Thinking
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Art Fight Fighting Purpose
I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Age Beauty Everywhere Internet Nowhere
Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Country Director Future Going Moment Outside Priilied Somehow Time
Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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Anything Country Crazy Meaningful Think Thinking Wrong
I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Emotion Emotional Man More Old Physical Poetry Problem Together
A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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Always Obstacles Question Spending Thinking Time
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Art Life never Separate
The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Country Crises Little Possibility Rest Understand World

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