Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art after all but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

When that shutter clicks anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course that's both liberating and alarming.

It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.

Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap but it can make great changes happen.