Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

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.

My spirit is free. My heart is taken.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

I want to be a living work of art.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.