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.
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 present.
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn’t predicate what you might do next.
I didn’t have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid.
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have.
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you’ve lost it.
To fly, we have to have resistance. It’s all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are “here” that extend beyond our own time.
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.
I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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.
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.
Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.
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.
If you don’t remember history accurately, how can you learn?
It’s funny, as you live through something you’re not aware of it.