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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

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It [success] is really by mistake.

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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

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

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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

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China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.

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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

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My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

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I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

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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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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

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