Ai Weiwei Quotes

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.

It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,

It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.