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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.

Ai Weiwei

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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Art Circle Coming Experience Important Thinking Work
Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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Contribute Government Individual Long Made People Thinking
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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Act Million Motivational Small Thought Wisdom Wise
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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Breathe Express Heart Long Myself Pumping
I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Journalist Lot Spend Talking Time
There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.
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Artwork Feeling Proud Relly Single Think Thinking Want
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Burden Changing Responsibility Shoulder World
[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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Care Culture Furthest Maybe People Understand
I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Country Emotional Place Relation Today
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
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Artist Cities New York
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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Crush Discussion Except Negotiation People Power Time Want
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
Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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Disappointment Enemy Experienced Family Growing Joy More Much Sate Up
Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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Ability Anybody Elite Else Mysterious Ordinary People Politics Separate Understand
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Dictatorship Graceful Outdoor Sport Sports Stone Throwing
The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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Always Fantasy Kind Luxurious Pearl Rareness Unique

If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.

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