A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

To the man who loves art for its own sake it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex you know in art. There's a lot of naked women and men and there's intrigue there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Architecture is my work and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.