I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression […] I don’t think anybody can separate… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share
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