It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

When Millennials face turmoil, they don’t just need answers from God, they need God.

After Chen Zhen, I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

Why, when people are starving, am I on a carpet that's red? Because I'm "important"? Because I'm "famous"? That's not how I roll.

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.