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 don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

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

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.