war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

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

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.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

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.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.