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
China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even… — 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 whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution… — 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
The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events. — 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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