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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.