China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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

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

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.