We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.
Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
American products are marvels of production and functionality, but were unnecessarily and unbearably ugly, noisy smelly and offensive.
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.
The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.
Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.
I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.
I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.
