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" Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. "

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" I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. "

" I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. "

" There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. "

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

" Architecture is a service business. 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 would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

" There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. "

" On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder. "

" A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. "

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

" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "

" Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. "

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

" I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. "

" The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. "

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

" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "

" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "

" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "

" For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. "

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

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

" An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

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

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

" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "