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" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "

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" Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. "

" There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. "

" I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "

" A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. "

" An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "

" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "

" Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. "

" I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. "

" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "

" Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. "

" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "

" Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. "

" When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also. "

" And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time. "

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. "

" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "

" I work from the inside out. "

" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "

" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "

" Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "

" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "