You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

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

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.