It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.