When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
Good design doesn't date.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.
I tried to talk to the graduates who haven`t figured what they`re going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they`ve got pretty much figured where they`re headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going,they`re still kids. They`ve always been promoted from grade to grade.
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.