We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

For one to succeed, one must be a assured of failure.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.