Embracing our environment is a good direction, a very spiritual direction. It's too Aristotelian to separate man from the animals and man; humans from the environment.
Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.
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.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
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've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.