Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.
I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.
When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.
After the motorcycle trips I take for one or two weeks, I have trouble getting back into a car, because I feel claustrophobic with all of that metal around me, and I can't see anything. I feel seriously dangerous in a car after riding on a bike, because your field of vision is so closed in. And then I think about all these little bourgeois people driving around in their cars - it's actually hideous. It cramps you on the head, it cramps you on the side, it puts you in a box on wheels. . . It's a terrible experience. Motorcycles are about opening the field of vision.
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.
I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.
What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?
The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.
The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.
The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind. . . God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.