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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R’s.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.