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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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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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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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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.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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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 think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.’s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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I want people to see their own power.
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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.
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The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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