We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

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.

I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

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.

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

The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture.

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

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?

You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

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.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

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.

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