I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.