Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

He's nuts" Bianca said"We need to jump off this cliff" i said"Oh nice idea!! Your nuts too

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.

I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.