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“Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.”

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“I think, in many ways, certain people sought me out maybe because they liked my body language or they liked the way I wore a slit skirt, the way I cross my legs or carry my purse. It's quite inspiring to play the seduction card.”

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“I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.”

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“I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.”

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“I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.”

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

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“This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.”

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“Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.”

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“All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.”

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“Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it's more of an evocation of what you do. It's more an evocation of seduction.”

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“My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.”

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