Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

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.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.