Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

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We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

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You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

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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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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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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.

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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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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

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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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