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.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

Design has to work. Art does not.

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

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

If someone says it's art, it's art.

And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.

In terms of existing, everything is equal.

If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.

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

Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.