I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.