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

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.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

I'm beginning to wonder when the Doomsday Clock will be reset to five minutes before 1939?

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

Trifles make the sum of life.

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

You communicate for a better tommorow, not to spoil today.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.