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My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

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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 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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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

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When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.

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Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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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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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

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Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

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The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.

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If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

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

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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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A small act is worth a million thoughts.

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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

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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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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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