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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

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

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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

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There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

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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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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

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

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My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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I never think any place is better than others.

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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

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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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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

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

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