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

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" 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. "

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" I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. "

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" To fly we have to have resistance. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. "

" 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. "

" We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. "

" For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. "

" You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. "

" The role of art in society differs for every artist. "

" I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. "

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

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" I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. "

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