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

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" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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