I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.