Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. – Leonard Baskin (1922–2000)

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe