-
…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
-
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
-
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
-
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
-
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
-
I am but an architectural composer.
-
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
-
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
-
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
