“The whole Chinese system – not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society – is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information.”

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.

I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I’ll find my way – or get totally lost.

The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.

The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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 growing.

You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.