Ai Weiwei Quotes

Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.

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.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I’ve been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.