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
I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to… — 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
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
There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling,… — 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 Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s… — 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 also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human… — 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
I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility. — 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
![“I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.” quote by Ai Weiwei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/886/ai-weiwei-824_controversial_i-curated-this-show-shanghai-biennale-i_66816.jpg)
