I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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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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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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The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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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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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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