Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

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

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

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