Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you. - 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.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.