Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous. - Ai Weiwei

It doesn’t matter where I am—China will stay in me. I don’t know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be "an artist." After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.