Ai Weiwei on Power
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Ai Weiwei, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Ai Weiwei and filed under "power" 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 #7419: "Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous."
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #201438: "In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible."
6 Quotes by Ai Weiwei on Power
"Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous."
"In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible."
"The people who control culture in China have no culture."
"I want people to see their own power."
"China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation."
"I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, the park, been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile."