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

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination..

I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me the….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

To fly we have to have resistance..

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….

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

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..

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….