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interview in Newsweek, 21 November 2011.
2010-, 2011
Kontext: Today, the West feels very shy about human rights and the political situation. They’re in need of money. But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights. With globalization and the Internet, we all know it. Don’t pretend you don’t know it. The Western politicians—shame on them if they say they’re not responsible for this. It’s getting worse, and it will keep getting worse.

“I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!”

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Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (January 25, 2012)
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12

“I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?”

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2010-, Living in Fear Is Worse Than Imprisonment, 2012

“The people who control culture in China have no culture.”

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2010-, China’s ‘Mozart’ Drops Off State Hit Parade, 2010

“You’re in total isolation. And you don’t know how long you’re going to be there, but you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything. Why am I here? Your mind is very uncertain of time. You become like mad. It’s very hard for anyone. Even for people who have strong beliefs.”

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2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011

“The language of communication will always need to be renewed.”

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2000-09, Truth to Power, 2009

“I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.”

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2010-, Never Sorry, 2012

“Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.”

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Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (6:46 p.m. June 15, 2009).
2000-09, Twitter feeds, 2009

“A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.”

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2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011

“I don’t know about five years from now. I have no plans for that. Maybe I’ll be forgotten by then.”

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2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008

“I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean—once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.”

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Wong, Veronica, and Gisela Sommer. “ Ai Weiwei Describes Mental Torment in Captivity http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/ai-weiwei-describes-mental-torment-in-captivity-59915.html.” Epoch Times, August 3, 2011. <br class="br">2010-, 2011

“In China, there is a long history of the government not revealing information, so it’s difficult for the Chinese people to ever know the truth. It is vital that we try to bring that truth to life.”

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2000-09, An Artist’s Ordeal. 2009

“A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.”

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2000-09, Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan, 2009

“We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.”

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2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009

“Writers, artists, and commentators on websites are detained or thrown into jail when they reflect on democracy, opening up, reform and reason. This is the reality of China.”

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Higgins, Charlotte. " Ai Weiwei: ‘China in many ways is just like the middle ages http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/11/ai-weiwei-china-last-interview." Guardian.co.uk., April 11, 2011. <br class="br">2010-, 2011

“If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011

“[My family] suffer so much. My mother was much older when I came out [of detention]. She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me. When you make somebody disappear and you don’t announce it to the family, what is this? You make people desperate and bring them close to death. If our cat or dog is lost, it makes us desperately want to know where it is—so for humans disappearing, you can barely imagine the pain. What kind of society is this? If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection, then? That’s why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or so charming. People feel, This guy is fighting for us.”

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“ Ai Weiwei: Artistic Licence http://www.economist.com/node/21554178.” Economist, May 5, 2012. <br class="br">2010-, 2012

“It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.”

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2000-09, Truth to Power, 2008

“Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.”

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2000-09, Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan, 2009

“You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who [has] different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can [disappear]. And the other people would take it, not giving support.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, 2010

“On the Internet, people do not know each other, they don’t have common leaders, sometimes not even a common political goal. But they come together on certain issues. I think that is a miracle. It never happened in the past. Without the Internet, I would not even be Ai Weiwei today. I would just be an artist somewhere doing my shows.”

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2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011

“The Chinese [government] only superficially speaks the language of the international community.”

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2000-09, Truth to Power, 2008

“They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.”

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2010-, Digital Activism in China, 2010

“Today China and the world will meet again. People will see that the planet is now smaller than at any time in history, that mankind should bid farewell to arrogance and indifference, to ignorance and discrimination, and understand that we share the same small piece of land. It will be a time to rediscover each other, to share what is good in life, to look each other in the eye and link all ten fingers.”

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“ Why I’ll Stay Away from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/07/olympics2008.china.” Guardian, August 7, 2008. <br class="br">2000-09, 2008

“You can see China still cannot offer any real value to the world except as cheap labor, manufacturer, and its own so-called stability. Besides that, I don’t see any creative values and creative mind or thinking [that] can be announced from China. So this is the struggle China has to face in the next decades.”

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2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010

“I always have an attitude. Even if there are no plans, I have an attitude. Perhaps I answered imprecisely before, saying that I am just a person. I am actually a person with an attitude.”

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Sans, Jerome. China Talks: Interviews with 32 Contemporary Artists. Beijing: Timezone8, 2009. P. 9.
2000-09, 2009