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

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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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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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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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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 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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Art needs to stand for something.

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

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It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

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Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

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Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.

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I never think any place is better than others.

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[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

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

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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

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