If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

If we are grateful, we shall be glad.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.