My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people.
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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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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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I want people to see their own power.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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