Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

God is in the details.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

Mother is the center of the family

One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.

You only live once, but can be born twice. Then, you can live forever.

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.

As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].