My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. – Thom Mayne
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. – Thom Mayne
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom