Ai Weiwei Quotes

You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.

Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don’t care about culture.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

It’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.

The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.