+ I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

+ Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

+ For the past year, I've not been allowed to travel, but now by logic and reasoning I'm a free man, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.

+ Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.

+ Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

+ House arrest, travel restrictions, surveillance, stopping phone service, cutting the Internet connection. What we can still do is greet the crazy motherland once again.

+ I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

+ Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

+ China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.

+ I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

+ We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

+ Liberty is about our rights to question everything.