“It [success] is really by mistake.”

But personally, I don’t think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it’s beyond my own consciousness.

I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

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.