Occupation: Contemporary Artist Birth: August 28, 1957
China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions..
I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I r….
New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make som….
All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods..
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens..
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six yea….
The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events..
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code..
You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it's necessary or that….
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the r….
I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make ev….
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary..
This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all..
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stup….
The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society….
Liberty is about our rights to question everything..
Each year, more people want to become artists..
If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future..
Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age..
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….
No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace..