Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest a potential of danger to you or your family or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
After a few months in my parents' basement I took an apartment near the state university where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end where no one can go any further.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.