Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

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.

We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain