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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

Ai Weiwei

I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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Country Crime Independent Internal Modeled Most Party Prison Restricted Year
Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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Changing Country Culture Politics Problem Unpredictable
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
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Art Fight Fighting Purpose
I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
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Board Bringing Country Pay Place Room Show Them
[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.
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Art Attitude Culture Long Practicing Related
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
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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Artist Expression Extend Freedom Power Responsibility Thinking
Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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Conclusion Mine People Quiet Saying Sentence Tree Voice
The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
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Continuously Direction Finished Game Lead Play Possible Project Setting
The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Developed Established Government Ignored Internet Longer Pressure Sphere
Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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Cathedral Hand Mass People Production Pyramid
The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Deadly Everything Evil Internet Letting Openness People Thinking Weapon
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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Created Ethics Historical Mean Moral Revived Society
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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Become Giving Up Government Same Saying Thing Thinking
I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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Association Culture Feel Kind Personality Power Related State Thinking

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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