Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

How would you like to feel the way she looks?

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.