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Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

Dullness is the enemy.

You cannot not know history.

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Glibness will get your anywhere.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

The future of architecture is culture.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.