We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you.

If you believe what you say, words will become reality.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

We need useless theory more than ever today.