If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

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.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

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.