...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let… — 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
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of… — 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
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age. — 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
To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died… — 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
Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a… — 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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