I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't conscious of the so-called "Fifth Generation." I didn't like that kind of study condition because there's no real, true education there.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.