As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have t…

- Zhang Xiaogang

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person - the two shouldn't be separate.

- Zhang Xiaogang

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.

- Zhang Xiaogang

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

- Zhang Xiaogang

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in o…

- Zhang Xiaogang