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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

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The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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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'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.

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The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

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

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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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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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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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

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Dont retreat. Retweet!

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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 want people to see their own power.

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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

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