«PRACTICE IS THE CRITERION OF TRUTH» 
2004, canvas, Beethoven score, mixed technique, acrylic, 150x185 cm, 60x74 in

PRACTICE IS THE CRITERION OF TRUTH

Today we often remember one of Napoleon’s aphorisms: "China is a sleeping giant, and when it wakes up the world will tremble". Now the sleeper has woken up, and we cannot neglect it... The score of Beethoven’s Eroica symphony, the Great Adventurer bestriding the Alps, the glory and power of Bonaparte - is all of this in the past? What is left for the present? An elegant tourist country, Europe, just a comfortable province - is that it? As Chairman Mao once said: "Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth".