Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.