In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

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.

If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.