Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

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

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.