In the search for truth, there are no final answers, only better questions.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

建筑是一门社会艺术；它必须回应社会的需求。