By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

New ideas often need old buildings.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.