With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

The primary factor is proportions.

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed.

Ten lands are sooner known than one man.

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

Being a fan of dance and a dancer, I love my classic dance movies.

We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people).

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.