Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
Genuine effort is success.
I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary. . . I want to maintain the fun at all times.
After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.
Don't be intimidated by the size of your problem or the size of your dream. God will see to it that it is finished completely.