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The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

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To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

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

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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

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It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

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If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

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

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

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China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals. Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

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I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

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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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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

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