You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
AI WEIWEIYou’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
AI WEIWEIThe American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
AI WEIWEIIn a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
AI WEIWEIIt is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
AI WEIWEII don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
AI WEIWEIIf civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
AI WEIWEIIf you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
AI WEIWEIIt’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 WEIWEIHopefully, other successes aren’t like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn’t make any sense.
AI WEIWEIThey very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
AI WEIWEII think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
AI WEIWEII think the pearls – one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl – really show a kind of [society] condition.
AI WEIWEIIn this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
AI WEIWEIThese folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
AI WEIWEII have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
AI WEIWEI