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Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Music is the space between the notes.