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

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

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

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the true crime.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...