These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.