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If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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Society becomes very destructive.

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...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

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

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Art needs to stand for something.

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

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Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

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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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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

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The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

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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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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.

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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.

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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

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If there's the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.

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