When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be ….

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy..

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it..

Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition..

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much..

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's qu….

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is r….

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In….

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….

Art needs to stand for something..

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 ….

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up..

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….

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind..

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

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit..

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres..

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….

You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from f….

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….

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….