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I'm a do-gooder liberal.
Let the experience begin!
I work from the inside out.
My buildings are all on budget.
For me, every day is a new thing.
We're physiologically wired differently.
You can look anywhere and find inspiration.
You've got to like the people you work with.
Your best work is your expression of yourself.
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.
We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.
Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.
I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.
You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.
In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.
Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.