“Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement.”

The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.

he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button

The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

How these people dressed, built their houses,

The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.

I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T

Thus he loves the house and hates art.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

So a lot of traditional rock sounds, you can’t play them. But to be honest, there was no particular intention when I started playing with four strings. It just worked out that way and it sounded cool.

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

I can’t be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;

My work doesn’t speak about individuals (it’s not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West – which is where I live and what I understand.

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of ‘traditional values’ installed. … the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.