Civilization exists by geological consent subject to change without notice.
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge mathematical knowledge physical knowledge and so forth.
People are craving this great progress in electronics going after computers the Internet etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
Now I'm not saying I'm fashionable but there are sociological interests that matter to me things that are theoretical political intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings considered as psychical elements is naturally the attitude of psychology at large.
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations that tries to transform decay into something generative that is replicative in a baroque way that isn't about progress and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
Freedom in art freedom in society this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The web then or the pattern a web at once sensuous and logical an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style that is the foundation of the art of literature.
For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin any more than a study of silicon copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.
You live in a deranged age more deranged that usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.