Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go. . . it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.
We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.
Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.