A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.