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

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.