Ai Weiwei Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Ai Weiwei

Country, Powerful, Heart

"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry". Documentary, 2012.
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

Ai Weiwei

Art, Wall, Communication

"'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.

Ai Weiwei

Heart, Long, Breathe
Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

Ai Weiwei

Art, Thinking, Should Have

Source: www.spiegel.de
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

Ai Weiwei

Beautiful, Heart, Years

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.

Ai Weiwei

Heart, Issues, Government

Source: www.spiegel.de

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Born: August 28, 1957
Occupation: Contemporary artist
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