The primary factor is proportions.

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.

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.

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.

She was always the first to love, first to encourage, first to forgive...for everyone but herself.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.

Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.