I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that..

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries..

It [success] is really by mistake..

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a b….

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even ….

How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of contr….

Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming eve….

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace..

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-quest….

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention….

I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bri….

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of w….

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible..

I think I'm just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there's no bridge, you build one. I'm used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ide….

Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own ….

The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the ent….

In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is im….

Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and b….

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age..

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm j….

Liberty is about our rights to question everything..