I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.