I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

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

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

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