You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself