Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
![Ai Weiwei Quote - [Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/being-unique-gives-so-much-privilege-to-people-who-683x1024.jpg)
![Ai Weiwei Quote - Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/maybe-success-is-because-im-in-china-and-im-more-o-683x1024.jpg)
![Ai Weiwei Quote - I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-never-had-secure-belonging-feelings-with-this-so-683x1024.jpg)
![Ai Weiwei Quote - [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/therefore-holding-a-trial-outside-the-court-i-thin-683x1024.jpg)
![Ai Weiwei Quote - The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/the-society-was-so-different-in-china-it-was-a-feu-683x1024.jpg)
