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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

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It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

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I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

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I never had a sense of home.

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If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.

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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

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All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

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