Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.