The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.