Pick very few objects and place them exactly.
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
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.
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.