What I dream of is an art of balance of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing calming influence on the mind rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
There was an age however when the transition from savagery to civilization with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture took place for the first time.
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.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.