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.

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.

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

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

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.