Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.