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" I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

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

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

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. "

" If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

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

" Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston. "

" I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point. "

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

" The future of architecture is culture. "

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

" I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world. "

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

" There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. "

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

" I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? "

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