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" 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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" 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. "

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

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The future of architecture is culture. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dullness is the enemy. "

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

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

" 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. "

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