We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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.

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

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

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

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.