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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.
The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.
I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.
You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.
The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.
Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.
If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.