It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

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.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.