You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.