There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

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

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

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.

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.

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

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.