Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
Ai Weiwei
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
Consultant
Contemporary Artist
Designer
Film Director
Human Rights Activist
Painter
Photographer
Sculptor
Social Activist
Peking
Wei-wei Ai
Weiwei Ai
Ai Wei Wei
Country
Deal
Every
Behind
Always
Deals
People
Political
Casualties
Firsts
Barely
Human
Treated
Humans
Ordinary
First
Behinds
More quotes by Ai Weiwei
I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.
Ai Weiwei
Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
Ai Weiwei
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Ai Weiwei
I never regret anything.
Ai Weiwei
Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.
Ai Weiwei
Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
Ai Weiwei
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.
Ai Weiwei
Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
Ai Weiwei
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
Ai Weiwei
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
Ai Weiwei
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
Ai Weiwei
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
Ai Weiwei
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
Ai Weiwei
Creativity is the power to act.
Ai Weiwei
I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do I cannot finish them now.
Ai Weiwei
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
Ai Weiwei
I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.
Ai Weiwei
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
Ai Weiwei
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
Ai Weiwei
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
Ai Weiwei
