My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.

I designed a bench in a few moments. But, of course, it took me 25 years to do it.

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

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