Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.

Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!