I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.