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

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

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I never think any place is better than others.

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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

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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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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

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I never regret anything.

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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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I don't believe in a sense of home.

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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

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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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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

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Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

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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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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

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Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.

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