The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

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.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Lesser artists borrow great artists steal.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The essence of all beautiful art all great art is gratitude.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

The highest art is always the most religious and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

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.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.