You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
