This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

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.

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

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