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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
You have to live with the necessities of other people.
Women are the salt of our lives. They give it flavour.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
We must go to such towns as Bristol, York, and Norwich.
There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.
Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.
Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
The suburb was the major element of Australian society.
The only way to change the world is to change yourself.
The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.
There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayor's office.
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.
A railway station is something that can generate a city.
The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.
Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.
We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.