Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

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.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.