"When I meet Taiwanese, it's like we're good friends right away," says Cai in Cai Guo-Qiang: What I'm Thinking, which was adapted from conversations between Cai and critic Yang Zhao.
「我和台灣人好像一見面就是好朋友。」在評論家楊照訪談他的《我是這樣想的：蔡國強》一書中，他如此陳述。