Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

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.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

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