I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights. — Ai Weiwei

They [the government] really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?

Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.