Each year, more people want to become artists..

Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's….

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks..

The people who control culture in China have no culture..

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know m….

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions..

Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge.….

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron..

The world is sphere, has no East or West..

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture..

You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue..

Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the e….

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People….

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing..

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

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving gam….

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is….

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever..

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy..

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment..

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western….