Ai Weiwei Quotes

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a...

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's...

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally ne...

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now...

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'di...

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic sp...

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of...

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That'...

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise ...

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a...

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the coun...

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As l...

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In...

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is m...

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates h...

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social j...

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's in...

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning o...