The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn't promote it. There isn't a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that's all I know.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.