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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Ai Weiwei

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Delay Freedom Human Moment Nature Stupidity Succeed Winning
Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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Country Freedom Heart More Powerful Take
I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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Art Chinese Country Documentary Few Prepared Project Quite Thing Year
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
If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Few Head Morning Noodle Play Possible Project Start Think Thinking
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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Aside Creativity Imagination Past Potential Reject Seek Status
As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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Art Communicate Lonely Long Opinion Person Realize
I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Change Distinct Person Purpose Thinking West
What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Count Doe End Government
They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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Border Cope Create Deal Election Idea Imbalance Making Meet Political Popularity Selling Solving Voter
I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Bear Independent Responsibility System Totally
The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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Always Fantasy Kind Luxurious Pearl Rareness Unique
At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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Abroad Educated Government Moment People Student Year Young
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Art Called Contemporary Form Philosophy Society
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Architecture Ass Bad Badass Bureaucrats Complicated Criticism Involved Society
This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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All Attract Better Called Fame

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

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