But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

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.

You were built for this moment.

What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Unless we give part of ourselves away unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.