Each year, more people want to become artists.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.