I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
AI WEIWEIIf people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
-
-
Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
AI WEIWEI -
We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
AI WEIWEI -
I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEI -
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
AI WEIWEI -
Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
AI WEIWEI -
We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
AI WEIWEI -
During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
AI WEIWEI -
You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
AI WEIWEI -
The project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
AI WEIWEI -
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEI -
I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
AI WEIWEI -
The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
AI WEIWEI -
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
AI WEIWEI -
Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
AI WEIWEI -
It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
AI WEIWEI