I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
AI WEIWEIAnd who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
-
-
It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
AI WEIWEI -
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
AI WEIWEI -
There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
AI WEIWEI -
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
AI WEIWEI -
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
AI WEIWEI -
I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.
AI WEIWEI -
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
AI WEIWEI -
China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
AI WEIWEI -
I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
AI WEIWEI -
So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
AI WEIWEI -
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 desire and luxury goods.
AI WEIWEI -
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
AI WEIWEI -
Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
AI WEIWEI -
I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
AI WEIWEI -
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
AI WEIWEI