In Western terms, it's like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonardo.

It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on the finger of God touching the hand of Adam.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

No matter what China is going to become, China will never recover her true originality if she tries to please the West on Western terms.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.