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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

Ai Weiwei

Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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Country Freedom Heart More Powerful Take
Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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Central Culture Everything Government Make Understanding
In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
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Deal Democratic Dictatorship Kind Society Totalitarian
This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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All Attract Better Called Fame
I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.
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Cities Country Talking Local Resident Spent Time
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Child Children Ginsberg Person Thinking
That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.
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Competition Country Face Measure Open Resort
Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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Design Make Meaningful People Use
In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Abstract Care City Country Enough Large Nobody Quite Stuck
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Architecture Art Installation People Photography Publishing Together Working
It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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Aware Country Easy Govern Job
I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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Artist Country Encouragement Minded Narrow Opportunities Think
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.
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Ability Anybody Art Heart Ordinary People Thinking Understand
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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Country Development Different Improvement Indifferent More Much Right
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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Classic Condition Discussion Fantasies Related Sickening Today

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