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"Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has done everything but stay quiet since the Chinese government told him not to speak publicly following his release from detention last summer. The artist jumped back onto his ever-active Twitter account, has given numerous interviews to international press, and even set up a live-streamed surveillance system that broadcast his Beijing studio to an Internet audience, mocking China\u2019s ongoing monitoring of his activities. Ironically enough, the Chinese government recently forced Ai to turn off his cameras, but Ai has gone public in yet another way.The artist gave a crowd-sourced interview to Al-Jazeera in a video recorded at his home studio in Beijing\u2019s Caochangdi neighborhood. Responding to questions from fans around the world, the artist talked about his politics and the power of art to enact change. \u201CI use my art to... find a new way of communication and express myself,\u201D he said. \u201CThe only way I can still express myself is through the Internet.\u201D After noting that when Ai was arrested he felt that \u201CAll Chinese Harry Potters had lost their Dumbledores,\u201D another commenter asked, \u201CWhat is the power of art in creating public awareness?\u201D Ai responded, \u201CArt really shows the people our consciousness and awareness about our surroundings \u2014 it\u2019s a way for us to express ourselves to an audience.\u201DIn honor of Ai\u2019s ongoing outspokenness and his latest triumphs over censorship, we collected 20 of the artist\u2019s greatest quotes, from musings on freedom of speech to the radical anarchy of the Internet.Click on the slide show to see the quotes, along with images from Ai's life and work.[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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