"I also need to know that the fruit is so forward that the wine is expressive, that the wine has so much to say that at 35, 000 feet I can still smell it, " he adds.
With the Beyeler Foundation, Mr Piano saw the need for restraint, for something in a gentler key, and deliberately avoided a self-expressive, ego-driven creation that would intrude upon the works of art.
We need not now decide whether the same degree of deference is appropriate with respect to school-sponsored expressive activities at the college and university level.