I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always operated, whether it's a historical fact or a scientific fact, and then you actually have to connect it in your brain.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

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.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.