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"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character."
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"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
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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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"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
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"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
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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."
Parents
"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."
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"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."
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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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"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
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"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"I call architecture frozen music."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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