Architecture Is The Art Of How To

I Wouldn't Build A Building If It Wasn't Of Interest To Me As A Potential Work Of Art. Why Should I?

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.

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 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.

Doing A House Is So Much Harder Than Doing A Skyscraper.