If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

I've been called many names like perfectionist difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.