The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.