Ai Weiwei Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I know what to do and I go and execute.
-
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
-
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
-
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-
The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
-
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
-
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
-
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
-
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
-
I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
-
Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
-
When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
-
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
-
It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
-
I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
-
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
-
I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.
-
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.
-
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
-
There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!
-
When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.
-
The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
