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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

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It [success] is really by mistake.

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

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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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

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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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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

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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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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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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

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Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

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