We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which for two months every other year new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources like artists because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.