"In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

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"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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Walt Whitman, American Poet

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Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

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"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

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"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."

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"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."

People

"But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance."

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"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage."

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"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have."

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"But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

"I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."

"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."

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"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."

"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."

"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."

"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together."

"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."

"But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance."

"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage."

"In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside."

"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have."

"But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be."