From Dr. Theodore A. Gill’s speech, October 13, 1962
“It is not a profile you will forget. Greatness startles every time it is encountered….If this building is as great as I think it is, we will never get used to it. Do not mistake artful accommodation to its site as modesty of design. The accommodation is a part of the fascination that should seize, a part of the whole picture that is meant to stay in no frame but to reach out and shake the viewer every time. A great building turns every man into a tourist. This building deliberately turns its tax-paying Marin citizen neighbors into tourists in Santa Venetia. Because we will not get used to it. As the travelers who will come far to see it for the first time, we who pass it often will discover it all over again every time.”
COPYRIGHT 2003, Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library
