No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.

I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style and that's what my work is about.

I love a lot of things and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do whether it be gardening or architecture or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.

I left science then I went into art but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short with design.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.