I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art in graphics and illustration.

My culture-deprived aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is intimacy spirituality color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

If we know the divine art of concentration if we know the divine art of meditation if we know the divine art of contemplation easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

When that shutter clicks anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.

You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rationalism is the enemy of art though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.

This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.