After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.