Ai Weiwei Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

  Ai Weiwei

  Artist, Giving, Opinion

  "Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism: Review" by Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg.com, October 14, 2009.

• 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.

• 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

• My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Views, Names

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

• The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

  Ai Weiwei

  Attitude, Different, Way

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

• China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

  Ai Weiwei

  Attitude, Moving, Often Is

  "Ai Weiwei: Despite Flaws, America Should Be Proud". edition.cnn.com. November 05, 2012.

• Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised.

  Ai Weiwei

  Real, Thinking, Government

  "China's censorship can never defeat the internet". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2012.

• As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

  Ai Weiwei

  Lonely, Art, Who I Am

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