Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

The most and best of us depend on others

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.