I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.