Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.

If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.