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.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

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. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

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