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I spend very little time just doing ' art as art.'
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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I'm not sure I'm good at art, but I find an escape in it.
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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
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I wouldn't say I've become more radical: I was born radical.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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The language of communication will always need to be renewed.
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Very few people know why art sells so high. I don't even know.
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again....
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If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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I don't want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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This does not mean a meteor has fallen. This is the discovery of a star.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete.
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The disaster-makers always get away, while the innocent are always punished.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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The world is not changing if you don't shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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I don't see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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August 28, 1957
(age 67)
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