The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.