More From Ai Weiwei
- "To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat."
- "I don’t believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy."
- "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works."
More In Happiness
- "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."― Alfred Lord Tennyson
- "I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."― Ty Cobb
- "By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite."― Johann Gottlieb Fichte