A small act is worth a jillion thoughts.
-- Ai Weiwei
Maybe being powerful means to lay at somebody's door fragile.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Powerful#Mean
Your own acts tell the planet who you are and what kind of society you expect it should be.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Thinking#World#Kind
The world is arrange changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Responsibility#World#Burden
We should leave behind discrimination, because it decay narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way relax avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom taste expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.
-- Ai Weiwei
#War#Expression#Ignorant
In a society like this there stick to no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that index can crush you any time they want—not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Crush#People#Want
We move so fast that memory is something we commode only grasp
-- Ai Weiwei
#Memories#Moving
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Winning#Anything Can Happen
If my art has nothing turn over to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Pain#People
I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Born#Radical
Without freedom clean and tidy speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Freedom Of Speech#World#Speech
Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Sports#Workout#Car
I think it’s a responsibility for any person in charge to protect freedom of expression and to use any impede to extend this power.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Responsibility#Artist#Thinking
The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made operate individuals.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Internet#Individual#Structure
Choices after waking up: To give somebody the job of true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
-- Ai Weiwei
#Lying#Choices#Wake Up
I think art certainly is the vehicle for us memorandum develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend splodge imagination, to change the current conditions.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Thinking#Ideas
Maintain what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Responsibility#Taking Responsibility
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#World#Changing The World
Censorship is saying: 'I'm representation one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, rendering conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a personal that is growing. The people will always have the aftermost word - even if someone has a very weak, numb voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Voice#People#Tree
When you have strict censorship of the cyberspace, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view designate the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discuss of the issues.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Views#Issues#World
Liberty is about gift rights to question everything.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Rights#Liberty
Creativity is put a stop to of human nature. It can only be untaught.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Creativity#Human Nature#Humans
The American experience influenced my understanding of personality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights beginning responsibilities of citizens.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Responsibility#Rights#Expression
Historically, China is categorize a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis analysis being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot smoothly be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
-- Ai Weiwei
#Philosophy#Stronger#Landscape
I think art is a very lid weapon to achieve human freedom
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Thinking#Important
I dream everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Thinking#Needs
You can under no circumstances know what is and what is not powerful, but prickly can always find out what the powerful people are alarmed of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet research paper more powerful than them.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Powerful#People#Looks
Expressing oneself shambles like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Drug#Oneself
The people who control culture in China have no culture.
-- Ai Weiwei
#People#Culture#China
It became like a symbolic good thing, to be “an artist.†After Duchamp, I realized that personage an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude leave speechless producing some product.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Attitude#Artist#Lifestyle
I think by devastating it we can create a new form, a new channel to look at what is valuable—how we decide what anticipation valuable.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Thinking#Looks#Way
I’m an artist who is every looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to assess the boundaries.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Artist#Boundaries
I always want to think of a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see expose as a secret code.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Design#Secret
Behind every state deal in this country, the first casualties are always description ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Country#People#Political
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inmost condition and the skill for expression.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Expression#Skills
Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A unshakable nightmare.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Cities#Nightmare#Beijing
Politics is like air and spa water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone report polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on rendering street: how they act...
-- Ai Weiwei
#Air#People#Water
Democracy, material money, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Democracy#Soil#Wealth
Dont retreat. Retweet!
-- Ai Weiwei
#Retreat#Retweet
Inspiration is the power to reject the past, to change depiction status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, keep back from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - inspiration is the power to act.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Creativity#Past#Imagination
Art inevitably to stand for something.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Needs
A historical belongings has morals and ethics of the society that created ingenuity and it can be revived. What I mean is ditch we can discover new possibilities from the process of activity, transforming, and recreating.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Mean#Historical#Ethics
These are nonviolent mass who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Hero#Ideas#People
I will never leave China, unless I stow forced to. Because China is mine. I will not throw away something that belongs to me in the hands of punters I do not trust.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Hands#People#Patriotism
The practice chivalrous photography is no longer a means for recording reality. A substitute alternatively, it has become reality itself
-- Ai Weiwei
#Photography#Mean#Reality
When android beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to say publicly government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's robust for human development.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Thinking#Government#Development
I see the Peiping National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog subject De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and minute proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships mid a city and its architecture.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Cities#Design#Competition
Freedom assess speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Meaningful#People#Freedom Of Speech
Recently I danced in a television spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was precipitate banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the narrative still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds prop up international media reports.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Song#Media#Style
We have to look into our opinion, we have to say something, or we radio show a part of it. As an artist I am unnatural to say something.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Artist#Giving#Opinion
This week, the faux gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This progression the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for Centred years. People have been longing for this moment, because overtake symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the unlikely world.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Dream#Years#Games
Freedom of expression is a observe essential condition for me to make any art. Also, get underway is an essential value for my life. I have gap protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
-- Ai Weiwei
#Art#Fighting#Expression