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
- Activists
- Artists
164 quotes
Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
This simple form of repression, of using the method of not letting anyone speak, will never succeed.
My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
The disaster-makers always get away, while the innocent are always punished.
Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.
The language of communication will always need to be renewed.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ai Weiwei (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.