A land that rejects the truth, barricades itself against change and lacks the spirit of freedom is hopeless. - Ai Weiwei

Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’ll be able to buy a house. They come from very poor villages where they’ve never seen electricity or toilet paper.

I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.

I want to prove that the system is not working. . . . . You can’t simply say that the system is not working. You have to work through it