Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

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.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.