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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

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New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

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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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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

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Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

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There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

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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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China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.

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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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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

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