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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Ai Weiwei

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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Age Craziness Create Name Time
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
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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Country Culture Fixed Global International More Problem
I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Emotion Emotional Man More Old Physical Poetry Problem Together
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
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Condition Participating Relate Society Understand Way World
A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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Biggest Cheap Country Desire Exporting Field Labor Past Production
The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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Children Country Future Issue Job Know Leadership Mean Solve
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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Across Book Bridge Ginsberg Having Traveler Walk
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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Expressed Freedom Hero Idea Lost Nonviolent People Truth
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Bigger Building City Crazy Larger More Much Stupid Thinking
I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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Controlled People Select System Working
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
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Art Life never Separate
I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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Apply Artwork Blog Country Participated Passport
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
It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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Better Learning Mean Person Rubbish Skill Technical
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Art Fight Fighting Purpose

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