There is no self-portrait of me.
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.
I do not innovate. I transmit.
My father did advertising photography.
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
I am just an artist.
I try to find the picture, not create it.
There is safety in the very heart of danger.
I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.
I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship wit...
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
