Quotations from the artists:

I had experienced on the painting of lattice image from two aspects, i.e. abstract image and photo image. On the one hand, it is still in abstract domain and combines the original burn texture of “Dot Abstract” with computer “Lattice” image, therefore the regular abstract dotted image could be integrated into the irregular burn texture, in which the paint effect of each dot is just like an ink dot located in ink painting which remaining the lowest sense of painting and greatly reducing “every trace of subjective and spiritual residue”; on the other hand, this kind of neutral and anonymous state is also my attitude to art history knowledge, painting skills and even the memory about modern China in which the photography is not only demonstrated but also counteracted by painting.

--Cao Xiaodong

Gorky said: "there are two ways of life: erosion or burning,  and for brave people with broad aspiration, the latter would be chosen!" I'm eager to bring everyone with the passion of life obtaining!

--Han Xucheng

I have no idea of becoming an artist, and I am also confused about the artist exactly? I just want to try my best to lead a good life. While making my own efforts to gain a little freedom, I will leave some space for others as far as possible. Furthermore, I'm afraid of, I am ashamed of, and I am fearful of talking about my shit works, because I suspect that where so many so-called persistent faith and undaunted courage come from in the end? In childhood I thought myself a rebel, today I just dimly know that the “most remarkable” “betrayal” is originally the “obedience”. I will never go against the trends of the times just like putting on a show. In order to do a good job in drawing, you must have a perfect mastery of the basic skill. It is useless to say the same thing over and over again.

--Ku Xueming

There are a great number of people who are so surprised at those human forms “fabricated” by me taking flowers, fruits and vegetables as the heads that they can not determine whether the images on the pictures are the vegetables with the soul or the people losing their minds? This is my own “vegetable version of” Faust. At the cost of changing the soul for vitamin, I began to travel in my search for God in daily landscapes.

--Lin Chunyan

I began this painting experiment in 2000. It took on the characteristics of compromise from the very beginning. I first create crazy lines on computer and then blow up and distort the lines through a slide projector. Later, with a slight change of mind, I filled the blank space with colors, thereby making an irreversible mistake. This mistake is not only conceptual, but also transits to a psychic and physiological level. Consequently I feel that the conflict between truth and fallacy is not even the result of speculation, but is a bodily display.

The result of the long and complicated painting act often pushes the audience away from the picture. But the picture also has a magic power to draw the audience closer. This is a game of the mind as well as a display of skills. It is at this moment that the painting is out of touch with the painter and far away from the audience.

I can only say that art is like something, but not that art is something. Just as art itself has no history, I cannot say that the picture composed of those lines has a life or represents some form of life. It is in the changing style over time that it takes on distinguished characteristics.

--Xu Ruotao

My paintings reflect Chinese concepts and Chinese realities. What are Chinese realities? I cannot use Tibet to represent China. Nor can I use Chairman Mao to represent China. The Chinese realities in our eyes have Toyotas, as well as horse and cattle led carts; skyscrapers as well as huts; people who believe in Capitalism as well as those who believe in Communism. We cannot use a single attitude to treat the complex whole of China. The Chinese realities give me the sense of “multitude”, the sense of “complexity”, the sense of “chaos”. Therefore in my paintings, there are images and signs; past and present; folk and personal, national and western. My education and life experience have taught me that this is my understanding of the Chinese realities.

I am most touched by Lao Tzu in Chinese philosophy. The idea of seeming to be and not to be, and having something and nothing, is very intriguing.

--Yi ling

When I found that the Western rigorous shaping and the Eastern natural performance are respectively the most representative in Western and Eastern cultures, the purpose of my painting is to reflect the good combination of such two aspects to reach the orientation as unique as possible, which will present a new kind of painting style and language fashion. Of course, the art has no bottom, and any way or any method also has its limitation, style also means the limitation. It is important that it can freely express the author's ideas, and effectively communicate the ideas to the viewer. It can be achieved only through countless times of practice really without any other alternative way.

--Zhao Dewei