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

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

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

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

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

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.