Ai Weiwei Quotes

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.

There’s no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

People who can’t do that don’t get a sense of responsibility. And if you lack a sense of responsibility, you push the blame onto the system.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.

We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

They 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.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.