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Each year, more people want to become artists.

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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.

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If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

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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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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

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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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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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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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I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

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The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

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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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I want people to see their own power.

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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

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I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

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You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

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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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