The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a war between architecture and painting in which both come out badly maimed.

The sale of the painting is a disservice to artists, to art, to architecture, to the architecture profession and to the public,

The worst-case scenario is they get into a field they really aren't happy with. We want to make sure their majors are going to lead to a career they'd like to have. That's what education is all about.

I was painting a lot after the war, influenced by automatic gestures and Pollock. But I knew there were better painters out there.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government