Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.