There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.