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

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

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.

To fly, we must have resistance.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.