And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.

Design has to work. Art does not.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.