No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

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".