 You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. |
| You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. |
| We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. |
| I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. |
| I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. |
| It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. Topics: Childhood |
| I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. |
| I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. |
| How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. |
| I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. |
| Every memorial in its time has a different goal. |
