[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

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.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.