The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.
If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.