Ai Weiwei idézetek
Ai Weiwei: Idézetek angolul
“Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.”
2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009
Változat: Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
“To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei: The Dissident, 2011
interview in Newsweek, 21 November 2011.
2010-, 2011
Kontextus: Today, the West feels very shy about human rights and the political situation. They’re in need of money. But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights. With globalization and the Internet, we all know it. Don’t pretend you don’t know it. The Western politicians—shame on them if they say they’re not responsible for this. It’s getting worse, and it will keep getting worse.
“I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!”
Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (January 25, 2012)
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12
2010-, Living in Fear Is Worse Than Imprisonment, 2012
“The people who control culture in China have no culture.”
2010-, China’s ‘Mozart’ Drops Off State Hit Parade, 2010
2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011
“Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.”
Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (6:46 p.m. June 15, 2009).
2000-09, Twitter feeds, 2009
“A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.”
2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011
“I don’t know about five years from now. I have no plans for that. Maybe I’ll be forgotten by then.”
2000-09, Ai Weiwei: A Rebel of Poet Roots, 2008
Wong, Veronica, and Gisela Sommer. “ Ai Weiwei Describes Mental Torment in Captivity http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/ai-weiwei-describes-mental-torment-in-captivity-59915.html.” Epoch Times, August 3, 2011.
2010-, 2011
2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009
Higgins, Charlotte. " Ai Weiwei: ‘China in many ways is just like the middle ages http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/11/ai-weiwei-china-last-interview." Guardian.co.uk., April 11, 2011.
2010-, 2011
“ Ai Weiwei: Artistic Licence http://www.economist.com/node/21554178.” Economist, May 5, 2012.
2010-, 2012
2000-09, Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan, 2009
2010-, Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, 2010
2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011
“ Why I’ll Stay Away from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/07/olympics2008.china.” Guardian, August 7, 2008.
2000-09, 2008
2010-, I have to speak for people who are afraid, 2010
Sans, Jerome. China Talks: Interviews with 32 Contemporary Artists. Beijing: Timezone8, 2009. P. 9.
2000-09, 2009