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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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What counts in the end is what the government does.

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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

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My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

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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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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

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Dont retreat. Retweet!

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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

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