A small act is worth a million thoughts.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Dont retreat. Retweet!

I never regret anything.

I never had a sense of home.

Creativity is the power to act.

Art needs to stand for something.

Society becomes very destructive.

It [success] is really by mistake.

I don't believe in a sense of home.

I want people to see their own power.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

The world is sphere, has no East or West.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

I never think any place is better than others.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

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