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We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.
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Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.
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Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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