Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
I didn't want to lose the human scale.
Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York. . . had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace. . . beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!