The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
When that shutter clicks anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard which didn't last very long.
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.