Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul. Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe.