Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

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.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].