To fly we have to have resistance.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

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.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

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.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.