I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

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

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

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.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

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.

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.