Individual Quotes by Ai Weiwei

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

— Ai Weiwei

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

— Ai Weiwei

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

— Ai Weiwei

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

— Ai Weiwei

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

— Ai Weiwei

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this…

— Ai Weiwei

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

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

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself…

— Ai Weiwei

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people…

— Ai Weiwei

In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It…

— Ai Weiwei

I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human…

— Ai Weiwei

The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools…

— Ai Weiwei

Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would…

— Ai Weiwei

The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share…

— Ai Weiwei

I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think…

— Ai Weiwei