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To fly, we must have resistance.
To fly we have to have resistance.
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.
Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.
If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.
I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
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.
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.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
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.