Citizens should bear the responsibility to act. - Ai Weiwei

I’ve never planned any part of my career—except being an artist. And I was pushed into that corner because I thought being an artist was the only way to have a little freedom.

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

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