My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.