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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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Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.
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I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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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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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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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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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
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Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?
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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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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.
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