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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."


"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."


"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."


"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."


"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."


"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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