Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.