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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

Let the experience begin!

For me, every day is a new thing.

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

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

Talent is liquified trouble.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

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.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience ...

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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

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

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

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

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

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

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

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

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.

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

You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.

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

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

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.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

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

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

I work from the inside out.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen ...

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

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

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

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 is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

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

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture ... like Van Gogh ... so who's to say what's good and bad?

My buildings are all on budget.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.