The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.

I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation. So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.