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

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" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people. "

" 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. "

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

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" 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. "

" Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. "

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

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" 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. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

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

" 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. "