Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.
We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.