You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

To fly we have to have resistance.