I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

Its a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

Whatever you do, don't do it.