Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.