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 intrudeupon the works of art.
The key to resisting the hardship and discord that intrudeupon every human life, is to cultivate a certain attitude toward adversity based on the critical distinction between those things we are able to control versus those which are beyond our capacity to manage.