Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convi...

If architecture is frozen music then music must...

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to...

Writing about music is like dancing...

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking...

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstr...

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same...

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in arc...

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to arch...

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may...

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like t...

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for musi...