Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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Tips on surviving the regime: Respect yourself and speak for others. Do one small thing every day to prove the existence of justice.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.
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Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.
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My voice is not for me. Every time I make a sentence I think how many people for how many generations had a voice that no one could hear. At most they will be remembered as numbers; in many cases, even numbers don’t exist.
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I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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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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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.
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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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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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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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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
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I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.
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They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.