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 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.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

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

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.