In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.