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" You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. "

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" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. "

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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. "

" I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. "

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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 left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. "

" 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. "

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" My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. "

" 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. "

" 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 really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. "

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" It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. "

" I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. "

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

" I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. "

" When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. "

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

" 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. "

" To fly we have to have resistance. "

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