Ai Weiwei Expression Quotations

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.