Ai Weiwei Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Cities Quotes

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Cities Quotes

The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Technology Quotes , People Quotes

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Father Quotes , People Quotes

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Cities Quotes , Nightmare Quotes

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Sports Quotes , Cyberspace Quotes

Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , New York Quotes , Father Quotes

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Reality Quotes

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Artist Quotes , Rights Quotes

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Necklaces Quotes

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Past Quotes , Desire Quotes

What counts in the end is what the government does.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Government Quotes , Doe Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , School Quotes

I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New York. But this is China, where nothing is surprising.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , New York Quotes , Phones Quotes

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , World Quotes

Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Interesting Quotes , Effort Quotes

The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , School Quotes , Media Quotes

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , My Own Quotes

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Art Quotes

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes