Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
The bullpen in a baseball park is the best place for matador training.
And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.
His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.
This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.
Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.
In case you haven't noticed, we're already involved, Finch. And in case you haven't noticed, I'm broken too.
My happy place, huh? Well, yeah, I guess that's what music is for me.
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
