I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

At the beginning of the 20th century the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music which was then considered as the noblest art.

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties and then tailing off.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten and the more a picture has to give the greater it is.

Every good painter paints what he is.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.