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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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" 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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" 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. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" I'm about four skyscrapers behind. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The future of architecture is culture. "

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

" Architecture is art, nothing else. "

" Glibness will get your anywhere. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "