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.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The sadness of the incomplete the sadness that is often Life but should never be Art.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art never improves but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business the business of building entertainment.

Art is never finished only abandoned.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I've never really had a hobby unless you count art which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.