I Hate Vacations. If You Can Build

I Like To Be Buttoned Onto Tradition. The Thing Is To Improve It, Twist It And Mold It; To Make Something New Of It; Not To Deny It. The Riches Of History Can Be Plucked At Any Point.

To Me, The Drive For Monumentality Is As Inbred As The Desire For Food And Sex, Regardless Of How We Denigrate It. Monuments Differ In Different Periods. Each Age Has Its Own.

Some Of The Opera Houses In Italy Had To Be Burnt Down Because People Could Neither See Nor Hear. They Gave Up Seeing Years Ago, But They Did Enjoy The Music.

Doing A House Is So Much Harder Than Doing A Skyscraper.

If Architects Weren't Arrogant, They Wouldn't Be Architects. I Don't Know A Modest Good Architect.