Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

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.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.