I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.