Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.