Ai Weiwei vs. Ernest Hemingway
Read 20 entries attributed to Ai Weiwei alongside 20 attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Ai Weiwei alongside 20 attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: life, truth, humor, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #136781: "I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art."
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #1194: "Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, …"
Side-by-Side Comparison
Ai Weiwei
1957
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese government and its stance on democracy and human rights.
"I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art."
#life"Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what’s on his mind. A fairy tale has come true."
#truth"Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I…"
#money"I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries."
#art"Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies."
#truth"To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical condition…"
#life"The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay."
#art"Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words."
#humor"Myself, I try to search for the new way, always trying to set up a new possibility and to find the new tools to express myself. To reach a broader audience."
#life"The think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represen…"
#truth"I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?"
#freedom"My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China."
#philosophy"They don’t believe in liberty. They don’t believe in China before the Communists. There is only one simple, clear task: to protect their control, to maintain…"
#freedom"I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions."
#art"It’s never about me. use me as a mark for themselves to recognize their own form of life: I become their medium. I am always very clear about that."
#life"Living in a system under the Communist ideology, an artist cannot avoid fighting for freedom of expression. You always have to be aware that art is not only …"
#freedom"They cannot stop people from communicating freely, to get information and to express themselves. When they do that, this nation is not a right place to live.…"
#freedom"My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or abou…"
#freedom"They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it."
#justice"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."
#timeErnest Hemingway
1899 – 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The…"
#love"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good,…"
#love"Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love."
#love"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
#love"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
#love"I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."
#love"Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loan…"
#writing"I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is wri…"
#truth"SparkNotes of The Old Man And The Sea"
#music"Hit in the head you will die quickly and cleanly even sweetly and fittingly except for the white blinding flash that never stops, unless perhaps it is only t…"
#life"Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you…"
#work"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
#writing"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soi…"
#humor"The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
#time"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
#writing"Easy writing makes hard reading."
#books"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
#happiness"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cu…"
#humor"Do you remember how old Ford was always writing how Conrad suffered so when he wrote? How it was un metier de chien etc. Do you suffer when you write? I don'…"
#writing"I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking t…"
#literature