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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.

Ai Weiwei

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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Art Communication Definition Expression Freedom Sound Wall Way
We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
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Allowed Border Country Government Public Redefine Sphere
…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Always Care Past Photograph Present Surpasses Today True
A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.
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Creativity Discuss Healthy Openly Thought Wish
Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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Behavior Certain Country Idea Independent More Open Participate Project
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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Country Experience Expression Individual Responsibility Right Understanding
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
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Artist Call Certain Chinese Condition Country Kind Reflect Yourself
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Express Expression Need Purpose Yourself
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
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
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Barely Casulaities Country Deal People Political Treated
I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Journalist Lot Spend Talking Time
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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Beautiful Called Craftsmanship Interested Material Mean Perfect Useless
I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
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Condition Giving Meaning Poor Successful Thinking Unsuccessful
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
They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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Defend Difficulty Dramatic Handle Idea Liberal Men Women Shame Show

There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.

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