I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
Creativity is the power to act.
I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.