Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

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

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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.