People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.