Agendas Quote by Ai Weiwei

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone…

— Ai Weiwei

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might…

— Amy Tan

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

— Ai Weiwei

There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect…

— Wang Jianwei

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

— Ai Weiwei

Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply…

— Lewis Hyde

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance…

— Ai Weiwei

The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art…

— Terence McKenna

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is…

— Mike Huckabee

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

— Pablo Picasso

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as…

— Paul Auster