They have to have an enemy. They have to create you as their enemy in order for them to continue their existence. It’s very ironic. - Ai Weiwei

I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, [at] the park, [I had] been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

I came to art because I wanted to escape the other regulations of the society. The whole society is so political. But the irony is that my art becomes more and more political.

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.