We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

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

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

Generally people are afraid. They pretend they aren’t; it’s part of the denial. We’re all part of it. As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what’s comfortable, and we’re afraid of the different. We’re afraid of change. It happened in Los Angeles, too, when the first models of Disney Hall were shown. You should have heard the outcry from the public, critics and press. It was called “broken crockery,” “outlandish” and blah blah blah. Of course now the feeling is different.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.