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.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

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.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.