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" Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. "

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" I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep. "

" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

" Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. "

" There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes. "

" You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. "

" I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. "

" Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice. "

" The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds. "

" I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. "

" Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

" There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction. "

" I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. "

" It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful. "

" Architecture is the art of how to waste space. "

" To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. "

" Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does? "

" Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. "

" I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. "

" I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. "

" Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. "

" How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine. "

" Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going. "

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

" In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study. "

" Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in. "

" The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. "

" I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. "