If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint ' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

First of all plain and simple you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone whatever that means.