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If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Europe has been in my bones.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?