I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
Ai Weiwei Quotes
born 1957 China
Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; born 1957 in Beijing) is a leading Chinese artist, curator, architectural designer, cultural and social commentator and activist.
- China
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- Artists
164 quotes
Everything is art. Everything is politics.
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.
No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'
They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.
Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention.
I’m not sure I’m good at art, but I find an escape in it.
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ai Weiwei (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.