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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Ai Weiwei

But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.
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Art Beyond Character Consciousness Country Personality Related Think Understanding Work
I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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Citizen Father Party Pushed Writer Writing Young
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
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 don’t believe in a sense of home.
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Believe Home Sense
Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Country Course Easy Good Kind Luxury Made Relative
I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Anything Clear Doubt Giving Man Really Reason
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
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
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Better Condition Good Guaranteed Life never Safe Use
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
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
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
…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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Always Care Past Photograph Present Surpasses Today True
I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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Crisis Displaced Home Human Lost Million People Situation Strong Thinking Tragedy
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

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