Ai Weiwei Quotes

There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.