Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it..

I think it's more important to show your work to the public..

China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival.….

The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These c….

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens..

The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society….

The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child pol….

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture..

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life..

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the ….

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics..

I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that's the tr….

My childhood was quite extreme. Sometimes I was so weak I could not stand up. But now I am so strong. Life is unpredictable.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A phil….

I don't believe in a sense of home..

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless p….

This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives..

I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind o….

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design..

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and ….

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an exa….