"My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process." ― Tadao Ando Topic(s): Art More From Tadao Ando "At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage." "Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis." "Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two." More In Art "Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them."― Blaise Pascal "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."― Isaac Bashevis Singer "I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”"― Friedrich Nietzsche