My buildings are more famous than me.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

I like English parks.

A mind possessed by unmade books.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

We see only what we have names for.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.