I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
Ai WeiweiBehind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
Ai WeiweiMy understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.
Ai WeiweiI have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
Ai WeiweiWe never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
Ai Weiwei