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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Ai Weiwei

You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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Criticism Function Money Society Star Turn Work
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
I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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Bridge Build Chinese Express Humanity On Thinking Traveler
The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Avoid Belief Carrodes Denies Ignorant Mankind Minded Misunderstanding Narrow Warmth
This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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All Attract Better Called Fame
To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Above Beyond Experience Feeling Over People Physical Poetry Reality
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
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Influence Interview Understood Warhol Work Writing
It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
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Activity Curiosity Follow Instinct Kind Set Some Way
I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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Artist Giving Up Intellectual Mean Needed Responsibility Social
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Burden Changing Responsibility Shoulder World
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
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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Chance Exercise Free More Much People Quality World Young
It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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Another Importantly Old People Shared Understand Wonder World Young
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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Country Development Different Improvement Indifferent More Much Right
I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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Care Country Crazy Here Museum Shoe Thinking

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