Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Having a clear faith based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of 'Oh God I've got to do this today.'

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.