For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.