If a society cannot even support somebody like me, then people ask: Who is under protection then? That's why there is such support for me. It is not because I am so beautiful or I am so charming. People feel: This guy is fighting for us.

Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

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.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

I never think any place is better than others.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.