Everyone of us is a potential convict.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

I never had a sense of home.

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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