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

Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is gro….

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship..

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

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….

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….

My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its origina….

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of….

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of ge….

I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you ne….

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any litt….

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my….

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….

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….

Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort..

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

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should s….

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares..

I never saw [Allen Ginsberg] as some kind of crazy figure..

I never think any place is better than others..

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change..