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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

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Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

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Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.

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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 don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

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

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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

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I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

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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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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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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

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