Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

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

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.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.