Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.
My personality is more the personality of a painter.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
The room within is the great fact about the building.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.
We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.
I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.
If you change the environment, you change the people.
Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.
Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?
The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.
To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.