The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

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

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.