Ai Weiwei Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• 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.

• Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, Country, Art

  "China's art world does not exist" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

• Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, People, Political

  "Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

• We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Sacrifice, Rights

  "David Cameron, as you visit China please listen to us" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2010.

• China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Culture, Shapes

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

• There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Media, Progress

• The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Military, Cutting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Korea, Competition

  "Ai Weiwei: The Dissident". Interview with Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, content.time.com. December 14, 2011.

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