I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
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.