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.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

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