This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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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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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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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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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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