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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
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Express Expression Need Purpose Yourself
I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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China Feelings This Society
The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Chinese Cold Government Relationship War
My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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Appreciate Typical Wake Up
To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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Country Critical Dangerous Figure Government Media Symbolic
You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Criticism Function Money Society Star Turn Work
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Fragile Mean Powerful Recovery
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Amusement Challenge Challenges Curiosity Mean Necessarily Really Temporary
It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.
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Artist Attitude Lifestyle More Producing Realized Symbolic Thing
The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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Country Crises Little Possibility Rest Understand World
I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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Decide Looks New Shattering Thinking Valuable Way
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. Art should live in the heart of the people.
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Always Art Been Communication Definition Expression Freedom Same Wall
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
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Child Children Ginsberg Person Thinking
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Artist Giving Up Intellectual Mean Needed Responsibility Social
Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Anything High Market Mean Purely Selling
New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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Country Given Home

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