When you're in a country like that - the architecture, everything is infused with the importance of religion. The art itself is just incredible. The architecture, the painting, the sculpture.

I saw the Pantheon and St. Peter's Basilica when people were not there, when you can engage with art.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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