I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

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 went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

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.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.