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 Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — 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
In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible. — 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
For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share… — 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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