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

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

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

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

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.