A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

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

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.