I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design,… — 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
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? — 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 Image
China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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 Image
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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 Image
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial. — 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 different sets… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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