The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.