The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.