Ai Weiwei Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fake, Chinese

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

• 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.

• China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Ideas, Effort

• The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

  Ai Weiwei

  Strong, Party, Government

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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

• I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Independent, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Creativity, Decision

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

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