A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

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

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

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.