Ai Weiwei Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: May 18, 1957

Topics

FreedomArtCulturePurposeControl

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

Jessica Simpson

RomanticYouChooseKnowWantStuff

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

Maurice White

AlwaysDaysBeingIdeaYoungest

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

Roger Waters

PeopleArtistCountryWrongPlayGo

Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.

Jay Samit

TogetherSpacePeopleEnjoyNeed

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Jason Biggs

CharacterAmericanYouPieAudience

I've always felt like I've been in good shows.

David Walton

GoodAlwaysBeenLikeFeltShows

'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.

Christine Taylor

PeopleMeDoingActingTryNever

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

PhotographSeldomLooked

In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can only be in this space if you transcend your blackness by showing us some green dollars. Even then, there is no guarantee that green will transcend your black skin.

Anthea Butler

PolicePeaceRacismSpaceGreenYou

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

Anthony Fauci

PositiveScienceDisagreements

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.

Philip Pullman

LifeQualitySympathySpeakStop

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

Pope Benedict XVI

WorkMyselfMeLordActAbove

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