The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.

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.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.