Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field..

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 si….

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing t….

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world..

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

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….

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 ….

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronologi….

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you..

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it ca….

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..

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..

All my work is much more peaceful than I am..

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. Inter….

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 p….

To fly we have to have resistance..

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

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 archit….

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time..

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 i….

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