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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.

Ai Weiwei

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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Detention During Moon Most Thought
The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Forward Game Involved Motivation Moving Passion People
So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Country Democracy Granted Liberty Think Today True Worse
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Age Economy Globalization Internet Jump Today
Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Cathedral Hand Mass People Production Pyramid
We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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Lacking Leader Moving Political Sititaion Today Vision
If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Face Future Nation Past
Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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Changing Country Culture Politics Problem Unpredictable
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Censorship Forward Hopeless Insulting Self Timidity Way
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Laughing Look Successful
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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Apply Artwork Blog Country Participated Passport
The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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Carries Change Disturbing Intention Media Message
I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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China Feelings This Society
It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Before Confess Everything Judicial Over Place Stay Suffer System
I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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Direct Father Independent Influence Thinking

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