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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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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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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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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 reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

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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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China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.

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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

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

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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

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If it's possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head - the project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It's always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.

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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.

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