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.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.