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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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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.

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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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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

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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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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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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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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.

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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

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To fly we have to have resistance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: October 5th, 1959

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