Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

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

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

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

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

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

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.