Quote

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

Ai Weiwei

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Thinking
Worth
People
Example
Hope
Speak
Given
Around
Totally
Also
Okay
Think
Afraid

More quotes by Ai Weiwei

Image
I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.
Ai Weiwei
Image
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
Ai Weiwei
Image
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.
Ai Weiwei
Image
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.
Ai Weiwei
Image
China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
Ai Weiwei
Image
I want people to see their own power.
Ai Weiwei
Image
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.
Ai Weiwei
Image
My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
Ai Weiwei
Image
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'
Ai Weiwei
Image
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
Ai Weiwei
Image
No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
Ai Weiwei
Image
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
Ai Weiwei
Image
Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.
Ai Weiwei
Image
The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
Ai Weiwei
Image
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
Ai Weiwei
Image
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
Ai Weiwei
Image
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
Image
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
Ai Weiwei
Image
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
Ai Weiwei
Image
I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology - it's not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China's problems are not just China's problems - they're human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
Ai Weiwei