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

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

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

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

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.