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

The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

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

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.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.

Where we might go in the future, we’ll see. Customers love games. I’m not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.

I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.