Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.

I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.

I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.

You are a work of art.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.