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

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

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

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.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.