Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

Programming your mind with positive thoughts each day will go a long way to keep you from allowing external criticism to derail your dreams.

A lot of acting is private time.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.