...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.