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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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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

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I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

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Creativity is the power to act.

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

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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 lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

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I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

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I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

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China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.

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

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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

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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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