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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

Ai Weiwei

I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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Art Chinese Country Documentary Few Prepared Project Quite Thing Year
We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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Cleaned Highly Hole Literally Lived Poet Respected Toilet Underground Yera
This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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Art Artist Country General Money Star Understanding
It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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Desire Humanity Make Pureness Safe Something Trouble
Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
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
These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Control Creative Folk Government Head Ironic Ultimately
Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Country Course Easy Good Kind Luxury Made Relative
It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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Backward Form Geographical Human Mountain Ocean Protected Right Speech
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Chance Exercise Free More Much People Quality World Young
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
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Fragile Mean Powerful Recovery
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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Acceptance Civilization Creativity Evolved Global Thinking Tolerance Understanding
We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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Capitalist Country Desire Grew Lacking Luxury Material Materialistic Socialist Today

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

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