I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

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

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.