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" My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. "

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" 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. "

" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "

" 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 want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. "

" 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. "

" I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much. "

" 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. "

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

" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "

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" 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. "

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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "

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" My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. "

" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "

" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "

" 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 was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible. "