Ai Weiwei Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Creativity, Past, Imagination

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

• I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  "Ai Weiwei 'Does Not Feel Powerful'". www.bbc.com. October 13, 2011.

• I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Father, Party, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

  Ai Weiwei

  Passion, Independent, Rights

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

• I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

  Ai Weiwei

  Imagination, Desert, Kind

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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