I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.