Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.