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

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.

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

To fly we have to 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.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

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