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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
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I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
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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.
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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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