"We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on."

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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.

— Ai Weiwei