Making art is an act of love and making love to the world.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.