Ai Weiwei Quotes

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

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

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It's all about business.

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's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.