I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.