Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever. — 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
The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that? — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better. — 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
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
I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one… — 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
I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or… — 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
Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of… — 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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