If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Glibness will get your anywhere.

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.

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

How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.