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

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

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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

We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things. Even today the borders they're seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.