I Try To Give People A Different

I Loved School. I Studied Like Crazy. I Was A Class A Nerd.

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.

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 To Say Something New, Something Not Quite Familiar.

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.

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.