[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

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

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

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.