Ai Weiwei Quotes

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.

That’s why the country can’t face up to open competition – unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.

A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.