I Call Myself A Traditionalist, Although I

All Architects Want To Live Beyond Their Deaths.

How Does An Artist Know When The Line That He Just Painted Is Good Or Not Good? That's The Catch. De Kooning Was The Greatest Of My Contemporaries In Art, And He Knew When He'd Done A Good Line. When He Didn't, He Threw It Away. I Wish I'd Thrown Away Some Of Mine.

The First Complete Sentence Out Of My Mouth Was Probably That Line About Consistency Being The Hobgoblin Of Small Minds.

When A Building Is As Good As That One, F#*@ The Art.

Processionalism Is Primary - How You Get From One Place To Another, The Relationships And Effects Of Spaces As You Move About In Them. That's Worked Out Awfully Well In The State Theater. I'm A 'straight-in' Man Myself; I'm Too Nervous, I Like To Know Where I Am. I Also Like To Know Where I'm Going.