The disaster-makers always get away, while the innocent are always punished. - Ai Weiwei

I don’t have this concept that separates my art from my daily life. They are one thing to me. They are always one. How do you find the way to express yourself and how to communicate with others?

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.

I am always trying to find how to get the message through. [In Munich] we custom-made five thousand backpacks like the ones of those students [who died in Sichuan] to construct a simple sentence [spoken by the] mother of a dead student. It was: 'She has been happily living in this world for seven years.'