If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
Ai WeiweiI don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
Ai WeiweiWe should also 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.
Ai WeiweiWe grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.
Ai Weiwei