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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.

Ai Weiwei

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Architecture Art Installation People Photography Publishing Together Working
You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Complicated Issue Looked Somebody Still
I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
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Country Emotional Place Relation Today
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Effort Interesting Life Little Make More Much
To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.
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Absurd Always Artwork Giving High Matter Measured Number Price Something
In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Abstract Care City Country Enough Large Nobody Quite Stuck
The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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Forward Game Involved Motivation Moving Passion People
The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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Intension Intention Political Politics Separate
And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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Competition Ground Hold Ideology Lost Strong Win
A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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Built Content Good Manage Research System Taxpayer Thousand
You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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Clear Expression March Mean Minded Own Tiananmen
Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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Disrespectful Government Heart Issues Openly Politician Respect
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Application Art Look School Statistic Student Ten Thousand
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
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 hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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Encourage Expressed Idea People Worldview

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