It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.