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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

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I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

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

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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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To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

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I never think any place is better than others.

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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

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I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

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We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

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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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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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We live in changing times, and many people experience the challenges that come with it. In the face of uncertain futures, no one will know what to expect.

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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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