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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

Ai Weiwei

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
I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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Art Important Most Stance Thinking Way
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
As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It’s a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don’t know who you are and why you are here.
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Being Clearly Human Mind Responsibility Society State Way
A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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Country Internet More Powerful Scared State
As long as I can communicate, I’m not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn’t matter at all.
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Communicate Dialogue Engage Living Lonely Long Society
They lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
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Ability Adult Beautiful Decision Judgement Lack Learned Proper Skillful Taught Young
I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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Age Beauty Everywhere Internet Nowhere
The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.
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Country Cutting Educational Leadership Military Political Power Structure
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
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Anything Art Artwork Happen Winning
If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Face Future Nation Past
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
[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Belong Biggest Cultural Department Museums World
And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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Condition Gave Kind Mistreatment Society
Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.
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Chinese Ever Government never Selected Thinking

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

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