This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

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

China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.