Ai Weiwei Quotes

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

I believe in being an innovator.

We need innovation and creativity.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

To innovate is not to reform.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

The term 'innovative' or 'innovation' is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.