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

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart...

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.