A small act is worth a million thoughts.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

Creativity is the power to act.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.