The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

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

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.

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.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

To fly we have to have resistance.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.