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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 future of architecture is culture. "

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

" Dullness is the enemy. "

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

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

" 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? "

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "