Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite. . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
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.
Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people. . . anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves.
Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.