It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.