Ai Weiwei on Mind
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Ai Weiwei, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Ai Weiwei and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #19162: "I often think what I’m saying is for the people who never had a chance to be heard."
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #73940: "I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable."
7 Quotes by Ai Weiwei on Mind
"I often think what I’m saying is for the people who never had a chance to be heard."
"I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable."
"Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be."
"My blog is an extension of my thinking. Why should I deform my thinking simply because I live under a government that espouses an ideology which I believe to be totally against humanity?"
"A small act is worth a million thoughts."
"You can see China still cannot offer any real value to the world except as cheap labor, manufacturer, and its own so-called stability. Besides that, I don’t see any creative values and creative mind or thinking can be announced from China. So this is the struggle China has to face in the next decades."
"The state is taking action against people who have peacefully demonstrated their ideas. They are writers—all they did is to express their minds through the Internet. So the pattern is very clear. The state tries to maintain stability by crushing any thought of making change. It could happen to me, because I did the same thing and in many cases I went much further and deeper. But I always think the government can learn from their mistakes—they should learn and understand; they should be just as intelligent as anyone else."