Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

[In art], less is more.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet