I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

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.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

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

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we'll have competition. And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would've lost the ground to win.